Brent Hutton (born 15 April 1964) is a former

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

er who played with the

West Coast Eagles The West Coast Eagles are a professional Australian rules football club based in Perth, Western Australia. The club was founded in 1986 and first competed in 1987 as one of two expansion teams in the Australian Football League (AFL), then known ...

in the

Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition. It includes teams from clubs based in east ...

(VFL) and Swan Districts in the

West Australian Football League The West Australian Football League (WAFL "waffle" or "W-A-F-L") is an Australian rules football league based in Perth, Western Australia. The league currently consists of ten teams, which play each other in a 20-round season usually lasting f ...

(WAFL). A local from Bassendean, Hutton had his breakthrough season for Swan Districts in 1984 when he was used as a

full-forward Full-forward is a position in Australian rules football and Gaelic football with a key focus on kicking goals. The Coleman Medal is awarded to the player, often a full-forward, who has kicked the most goals in an Australian Football League seaso ...

and kicked 83 goals to win the league's goal-kicking award. He kicked five goals in that year's grand final win over East Fremantle. Hutton spent much of the 1985 season as a defender due to a loss of form but by 1987 was club captain. Also, in 1987, he kicked three goals for

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in an interstate match against

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at the WACA. Hutton was signed by West Coast in 1988 but was in and out of the side during his two-season stint, with 13 appearances. He continued playing at Swan Districts and was a member of another premiership side in 1990.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hutton, Brent 1964 births West Coast Eagles players Swan Districts Football Club players Living people Australian rules footballers from Western Australia