Geelong's most notable recruitment coup ever was the transfer of perhaps the greatest ruckman of all time, Graham " Polly " Farmer from East Perth.

Graham Farmer injured his knee three times during the season, causing him to miss crucial games.

* 1935 – Graham Farmer, Australian rules footballer

Nicholls, a ruckman and forward, had played at Carlton since 1957, and he and Graham Farmer ( who played with and in the WAFL during the same era ) are regarded as the greatest ruckmen in the league's history.

Graham Vivian " Polly " Farmer, MBE ( born 10 March 1935 ) is a retired Australian rules football player and coach.

The Graham Farmer Freeway in his hometown of Perth is named in his honour.

Farmer worked for 6PR during the football season and promoted the Graham Farmer Freeway for Main Roads Western Australia until June 2000.

On 6 October 1997, WA Transport Minister Eric Charlton announced that the $ 400 m Northern City Bypass would be named the Graham Farmer Freeway.

Charlton said, " He already has a place in WA sporting folklore and it is fitting that a showpiece of the city's transport network should bear his name … The northern traffic bypass system links West Perth and East Perth which are, coincidentally, the two districts which Graham Farmer represented with distinction on the football arena ".

* The Graham ( Polly ) Farmer Foundation

In a 134-point victory against Richmond, Ablett scored 14 goals, breaking a 22-year club record, and moving club legend and former club premiership coach Bobby Davis to laud Ablett as the finest footballer he had seen at Geelong, ahead of the legendary Graham ' Polly ' Farmer.

The following year, he was honoured yet again when he was voted as the Greatest Geelong player of all-time ahead of Graham Farmer.

Guildford Road and Railway Parade are arterial roads providing access to the Graham Farmer Freeway, Tonkin Highway and Great Eastern Highway.

It lies on the southern side of the Swan River, at the eastern end of the Perth CBD, and is connected to Fremantle and South Perth via Canning Highway ; to the Perth CBD by Graham Farmer Freeway and The Causeway ; to Belmont and Perth Airport by Great Eastern Highway and to Cannington by Shepperton Road and Albany Highway.

" He was also named in the AFL Team of the Century, as the resting ruckman in the back pocket, with Graham Farmer taking the first ruck position.

He is one of four footballers to have won the Brownlow three times ( the others being Ian Stewart, Dick Reynolds and Bob Skilton ), and one of five footballers to have won the Sandover at least three times ( the others being Barry Cable, Graham Farmer, Merv McIntosh and Bill Walker, who won it four times ).

Although the club garnered an undefeated premiership in the under-age WAFL competition in 1944, it was very much a middle-of-the-road side until the emergence of champion ruckman Graham " Polly " Farmer in 1956.

* 20px Graham Farmer Freeway / Orrong Road, Burswood, Lathlain and Rivervale

Burswood station is located within a small triangular area bounded by the Swan River, the Great Eastern Highway ( 15px 15px ), and the Graham Farmer Freeway ( 15px ).

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Graham Farmer Freeway is a inner-city freeway in Perth, Western Australia.

It is allocated State Route 8, and was named in honour of the Australian rules footballer, Graham " Polly " Farmer, who played between 1953 and 1971 in both the West Australian and Victorian Football Leagues.

The speed limit is except in central Perth, where the limit is reduced to as the freeway interchanges with Graham Farmer Freeway and Mounts Bay Road.

The tiny section east of Southport Street is a commercial area with several warehouses, taking advantage of its location at the end of the Graham Farmer Freeway.

In 2003, Burswood entered into a deal with land developer Mirvac Fini for the residential development of vacant land between the complex and the Graham Farmer Freeway.

Burswood is an inner southeastern suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located immediately across the Swan River from Perth's central business district ( CBD ) via both The Causeway and Graham Farmer Freeway.

Burswood is bounded by the Swan River to the west, north and north-east ; Graham Farmer Freeway, Great Eastern Highway and the Armadale railway to the east, and Shepperton Road and Harper Street to the south.

Lathlain is bounded by Great Eastern Highway to the northwest, the Armadale railway to the southwest, Roberts Road to the southeast and Orrong Road and Graham Farmer Freeway to the northeast.

Opened in 1959, the Narrows Bridge alleviated the traffic problems at the Causeway ; the Narrows and the Causeway continued to be the only road crossings of the Swan River between Fremantle and Maylands until the Windan Bridge of the Graham Farmer Freeway opened in 2000.

it was visiting University of North Carolina alumni in New York to ask them for contributions to the Graham Memorial Building fund.

In fact, his only disciple -- the only person to imitate his style -- was W. S. Graham, who seems to have imitated him without much understanding, and who has since moved on to other methods.

In 1982 – 83 Australia had Greg Chappell back from WSC as captain, while the England team was weakened by the enforced omission of their South African tour rebels, particularly Graham Gooch and John Emburey.

Erickson was also fired in 2012, and replaced by Todd Graham.

In 2003, author Graham Phillips hypothetically concluded that the Ark was taken to Mount Sinai in the Valley of Edom by the Maccabees.

The concept of playing solo steel-string guitar in a concert setting was introduced in the early 1960s by such performers as Davey Graham and John Fahey, who used country blues fingerpicking techniques to compose original compositions with structures somewhat like European classical music.

They determined to reinvestigate the motion of γ Draconis ; the telescope, constructed by George Graham ( 1675 – 1751 ), a celebrated instrument-maker, was affixed to a vertical chimney stack, in such manner as to permit a small oscillation of the eyepiece, the amount of which ( i. e. the deviation from the vertical ) was regulated and measured by the introduction of a screw and a plumb line.

Kirk's cousin, Graham of Duchray, was then to claim that the spectre of Kirk had visited him in the night, and told him that he had been carried off by the Fairies.

Having left his widow expecting a child, the spectre of Kirk told Graham that he would appear at the baptism, whereupon Graham was to throw an iron knife at the apparition, thus freeing Kirk from the Fairies ' clutches.

However, when Kirk's spectre appeared, Graham was apparently too shocked by the vision to throw the knife, and Kirk's ghost faded away forever.

The Alexander Graham Bell Laboratory, also variously known as the Volta Bureau, the Bell Carriage House, the Bell Laboratory and the Volta Laboratory, was created in Washington, D. C. by Alexander Graham Bell.

Billy Graham ( evangelist ) | Billy Graham, who attended BJU for one semester, was later at odds with the University

One of the earliest controversies to center on BJU was the break that occurred in the late 1950s between separatist fundamentalists and neo-evangelicals represented by the newly prominent evangelist Billy Graham.

As was his policy, Graham ignored criticism of his campaigns and, in 1966, claimed not to know why the University opposed them ; but members of his staff openly accused Jones of jealousy on the grounds that Jones ’ s evangelistic meetings had never been as large as Graham ’ s.

" When Graham arrived in Greenville, Jones, Jr. emphasized that the basis of the university's position was scriptural and not personal.

This field of study was introduced in 1861 by Scottish scientist Thomas Graham.

The organisation was founded in 1971 by a group of four drinkers — Graham Lees, Bill Mellor, Michael Hardman, and Jim Makin — who were opposed to the growing mass production of beer and the homogenisation of the British brewing industry.

Store web-commerce site, which originally involved Paul Graham and was later rewritten in C ++ and Perl.

The end of the Graham era, however, was also the end of the Browns ' dominant streak.

With Otto Graham and most of the other original Browns in retirement, by 1957 the team was struggling to replenish its ranks.