No. 24
Position: Interchange
Career: 1983-97
Games: 303. Goals: 33
Captain: 1994
Premierships: 1986, 88, 89, 91. Night premierships: 1986, 88, 91, 92. Finals appearances: 25.
Awards: 15-time interstate representative; 1987, 88, 89, 94 All Australian.

A champion full-back whose consistency and strength were typical of Hawthorn during this era. He missed the 1984 Grand Final after being dropped at the last minute and didn’t get a taste of premiership victory until 1986. One of the few modern-era players who could combine an off-field career with football at the elite level and still play well. In 1996 he informed the club that it was doubtful he would continue after taking up a position in Sydney, however the club retained him and when to extreme lengths to make the situation workable. Langford was allowed to train in Sydney on his own or with the North Shore Football Club, and the club even accepted him missing a game mid-1996 for business reasons.

In the last game of 1996 Langford showed his passion for the club by removing his jumper and waving it in the air following the Hawks’ one-point win over Melbourne in the year of the failed merger. He fiercely opposed the merger, describing it as ‘sacrilegious’ and ‘totally disrespectful’.