Jeff Fehring
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Jeff Fehring (born April 21, 1955) is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Victorian Football League (as the AFL was then known) from 1977-1981.
Recruited from Leitchville, Fehring was a ruckman who debuted with the Geelong Football Club in 1977, playing 19 games and kicking 1 goal until 1979. He moved to St Kilda in 1980, and in 1981 his moment of fame came. While he only went on to play 17 games and kick 3 goals for St Kilda, one of those goals was a huge torpedo punt that was measured at 94 yards (around 86 metres), kicked from the centre circle at Moorabbin in 1981. The goal came minutes after he was reported, and he was so fired up that he kicked the (wind-assisted) goal, one of the biggest in Australian rules football history. Legend has it he repeated the feat during a SANFL game for Norwood Football Club.
Fehring's VFL career was over at the end of the 1981 season.
