John Cahill

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John Cahill (born 27 April 1940) is an Australian rules football player and coach. During his illustrious career he played football for the Port Adelaide Football Club and then coached Port Adelaide, West Adelaide and Collingwood.

The Port Adelaide Football Club honoured Cahill by naming the award for the club's best and fairest player the John Cahill Medal.

Cahill played 267 matches for the Port Adelaide Football Club and 29 state matches for South Australia from 1958 to 1973. He captained Port Adelaide from 1967 to 1973 and skippered South Australia for three consecutive years.

After hanging up his boots, Cahill turned his football talents to the coaching arena. Starting with Port Adelaide, he would ultimately lead his beloved Ports to 10 premierships in the SANFL.

Cahill spent two seasons at the Collingwood Football Club in the VFL, where he led them to third position. He also had a brief stint at West Adelaide in the SANFL. But it was Port Adelaide where his heart lie and in 1997 he become their inaugural AFL coach.

After two successful seasons in the AFL, Cahill left the club, and it seemed, football forever. However in 2005, he was appointed coach of the Port Adelaide Magpies Football Club for one season to revitalise the struggling club. He took them to their first finals series in three seasons and they finished a respectable third. At the end of the season he announced that he was retiring from coaching.

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Preceded by
Mick Erwin		 Collingwood Football Club coach
1983-1984		 Succeeded by
Bob Rose
Preceded by
Fos Williams		 Port Adelaide Football Club coach
1974-83 / 1987-1998		 Succeeded by
Mark Williams
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