Big Mal Pascoe passed away yesterday 
Was a legend of my old club the Hobart Tigers.
TASMANIAN football yesterday said farewell to former Hobart premiership legend, Essendon onballer, state representative and hall of famer Mal Pascoe, who passed away aged 87.
One of the most well-known and most-liked football personalities from the Golden Age of Tasmanian football, Pascoe made his debut for Essendon in the under-19s aged 15 and went on to play 94 senior games for the Bombers from 1953 to 1958.
“Big Mal” kicked four of Essendon’s seven goals in the Bombers’ 1957 VFL/AFL grand final loss to Melbourne.
Tigers legend Mal Pascoe, of Hobart at the TCA ground holding his old playing jumper.
After leaving Essendon he moved to Tasmania where he captain/coached Hobart to back-to-back premierships in 1959 and 1960.
In ’59, Pascoe also took Hobart to the state premiership, won the William Leitch Medal as the TANFL’s best-and-fairest player as well as being the competition’s leading goal kicker with 75.
He was captain-coach of the Tigers, winning three flags, until 1966 when Western Australian John Watts took the reins.
“The quality of the man was shown when he stayed at Hobart and played a leading role under new Watts and being a major contributor to a 1966 premiership,” said John Jeffries, president of Hobart’s Past Players Association.
Still considered Hobart’s most successful coach, Pascoe was named in the ruck for the Tigers’ best team from 1947 to 2002, and was inducted into the Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame as inductee No. 289 in 2015.
james.bresnehan@news.com.au
Source - https://www.themercury.com.au/sport...l/news-story/c55c790cdef6df4ffdfdfafa07c3117e
Was a legend of my old club the Hobart Tigers.TASMANIAN football yesterday said farewell to former Hobart premiership legend, Essendon onballer, state representative and hall of famer Mal Pascoe, who passed away aged 87.
One of the most well-known and most-liked football personalities from the Golden Age of Tasmanian football, Pascoe made his debut for Essendon in the under-19s aged 15 and went on to play 94 senior games for the Bombers from 1953 to 1958.
“Big Mal” kicked four of Essendon’s seven goals in the Bombers’ 1957 VFL/AFL grand final loss to Melbourne.
After leaving Essendon he moved to Tasmania where he captain/coached Hobart to back-to-back premierships in 1959 and 1960.
In ’59, Pascoe also took Hobart to the state premiership, won the William Leitch Medal as the TANFL’s best-and-fairest player as well as being the competition’s leading goal kicker with 75.
He was captain-coach of the Tigers, winning three flags, until 1966 when Western Australian John Watts took the reins.
“The quality of the man was shown when he stayed at Hobart and played a leading role under new Watts and being a major contributor to a 1966 premiership,” said John Jeffries, president of Hobart’s Past Players Association.
Still considered Hobart’s most successful coach, Pascoe was named in the ruck for the Tigers’ best team from 1947 to 2002, and was inducted into the Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame as inductee No. 289 in 2015.
james.bresnehan@news.com.au
Source - https://www.themercury.com.au/sport...l/news-story/c55c790cdef6df4ffdfdfafa07c3117e
