At Moorabbin Oval, against St Kilda, late in the 1974 VFL season, Daniel made his 100th and last league appearance.
He was appointed captain-coach of Northern Tasmanian Football Association club North Launceston in 1975 and steered them to five premierships.
In 1983 he became coach of Subiaco in the West Australian Football League but didn't last the season after a string of poor results.
He is the father of former ABC Washington DC bureau chief and Member for Goldstein Zoe Daniel.
[2] He began teaching in 1968, when he graduated from Toorak Teachers College, now Deakin University's Malvern Campus.