Born: May 28, 1935
Recruited: Camberwell FC
Played: 1956
Debut Order: 496
First game: Round 5, 1959
Last game: Round 12, 1959
Guernsey: 35
Games: 6
Goals: 5
Premiership Reserves: 1959
Coach under 19’s: 1969 - 1977
Premiers: 1972
Reserve 18 Team Manager: 1978 - 1979
Match Committee: 1980 - 1995
Chairman of Selectors: 1983 - 1995
Premierships: 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991
Night Premierships: 1985, 1986, 1988, 1991, 1992
Reserves Premiership: 1985
Director: 1982 - 1996
Vice President: 1987 - 1995
President: 1996
Box Hill Chairman of Selectors: 2000 - 2003
Premiership: 2001
Life Member: 1975
Hall of Fame Inductee: 2009

VFL / AFL Honours
Jack Titus Award Services to Football 2004
VFL Life Member

Coleman was a great stalwart of the Club giving valuable service for over 45 years and being involved in 14 premierships. As a player he gained distinction playing as a rover in the second 18 Premiership in 1959. 
After a number of successful seasons coaching East Malvern, Canterbury and Springvale Coleman was invited back to the Hawks to coach in 1969. He coached the under 19’s for nine years, winning the only premiership for the Club at this level in 1972. 
With this valuable grounding, Coleman went on to be the most influential and successful Chairman of Selectors in the Club’s history. He achieved the remarkable legacy of five day and five night premierships in the Hawks golden era from 1982 to 1994 - 13 consecutive finals appearances, an AFL record. 
Coleman’s loyalty to the Hawks saw him serve as President for one year, 1996. This was an unrewarding task but Coleman displayed a great sense of dignity, enabling the Club to re-group and move forward, thus avoiding the proposed merge with Melbourne. In later years he served the Club with distinction guiding the newly-aligned club, Box Hill to their first premiership in 2001.