Colin "Col" Hutchison is a veteran statistician

Statistician

A statistician is someone who works with theoretical or applied statistics. The profession exists in both the private and public sectors. The core of that work is to measure, interpret, and describe the world and human activity patterns within it...

, most notably in the Victorian/Australian Football League in the sport of Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

. He served as the AFL's official historian from the 1990s until around 2005.

A part of the AFLPA, Hutchison provides interesting statistics on football to newspapers and media outlets.

He is the author of several books including a history of the Geelong Football Club

Geelong Football Club

The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed The Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club, named after and based in the city of Geelong, playing in the Australian Football League . The club has been the VFL/AFL premiers nine times, with a record equalling 3 in the AFL era. Geelong has also...

 ("Cats' tales : the Geelong Football Club, 1897-1983") and "The AFL footy quiz book".

The last time Col missed seeing a live Geelong Football Club game was in 1963, over 1100 games ago.

He has also appeared in radio commercials for Shell Premium Unleaded.

External links

• http://afl.com.au/default.asp?pg=printerfriendly&spg=default&articleid=189665

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/national/national/sport/1100-games-and-counting/2272266.aspx