[2] He played his first senior match for the Essendon Football Club against Fitzroy at the Brunswick Street Oval on 2 June 1951 (round 6).

[3] Lance won the Ovens and Murray Football League Best and Fairest award, the Morris Medal in 1956 and was a member of Albury's 1956 premiership team.

[6] On Monday, 14 April 1952, he won the 75th [130-yard (120 m)] Stawell Gift in 11 14/16 seconds, running off a handicap of 7+1⁄4 yards (6.6 m).

[9] It is also significant that his Essendon team-mate, Norm McDonald, running off 5 yards (4.6 m), ran second to Mann in the finals of both the Stawell Gift and the Bendigo Gift.

[10] On Monday, 10 March 1958, and running off 4½ yards, he ran second in the Bendigo Thousand (130 yds);[11] the feat was all the more remarkable as Mann had broken down during his heat the year before (1957) with a thigh injury so severe that he had to be stretchered from the ground.