The Nottle name has been associated with South Gawler since the 1920s. The son of the great George Nottle, an 11 time premiership player in the 1920s with the Lions, and brother of John who played League Football for Sturt and won two Gawler & Districts Mail Medals while playing in five premierships, Brenton Nottle was a gifted schoolboy footballer who grew into a great A Grade champion.

Brenny is also the father of Mark, himself a member of the 1975 Under 15s Premiership team. The Club is pleased that the Nottle name is now re-emerging through Mark's sons Liam, Sean and Rory.

Today the Nottle name is perpetuated by the clubs ‘Club Person of the Year’ which is the highest annual award presented and second only to Life Membership.

In 1951 he starred in the SA State under 15s schoolboys team that played in the nationwide Melbourne Football Jubilee, and after a brief stint of Colts with West Torrens graduated to senior footy in 1952 aged only 16, as an athletic centre-half-forward for fifteen seasons to 1967.

Awarded with the 1962 A Grade Best and Fairest, and then Life Membership in 1965, he was a core member of the 1954, 1960, 1961, 1963 and 1967 A Grade flags before retiring in 1968. He was an athletic centre half forward which is generally regarded as the hardest position.  He was also a regular Association player in strong GDFL teams.

1960 must have been a great year for Brenny as it was also the year that son Mark was born to go with the Premiership. His other major annual trophies for the A Grade include the 1961 Third Best and Fairest and 1965 Most Unselfish awards. That he was a great club man is proved by being awarded Life Membership of the South Gawler Football Club in 1965 – the club's highest honour.

In 1973 the Gawler Association reformed a Junior Colts competition which was the predecessor to today's Under 15s competition. Some wise administrator asked Brenny to become coach and probably because of son Mark he agreed. This started his greatest legacy to South Gawler and therefore the general community. Working closely with the great Bob Symes, Nottle became an excellent junior coach taking sides between 1973 and 1980 to three Grand Finals and securing our first junior premiership in 1975.

Sadly, Nottle passed away in late 2006, however his legacy includes the SGFC President, the SGCC President, a Freeling Vice-President, the SGFC Finance Director, Cricket Club Life Members and the 2007 Under 15s coach just to mention a few.