Angus Abbey was an Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

 player. He played with Footscray, now known as the Western Bulldogs

Western Bulldogs

The Western Bulldogs are an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League . The club is based at the Whitten Oval in West Footscray, an inner-western suburb of Melbourne...

, mainly as a defender

Football (Australian rules) positions

In the sport of Australian rules football, each of the eighteen players in a team are assigned to a particular named position on the field of play. These positions describe both the player's main role and by implication their location on the ground. As the game has evolved, tactics and team...

. He was twentieth man in Footscray's 1954 premiership team

1954 VFL Grand Final

The 1954 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Footscray Football Club and Melbourne Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 25 September 1954. It was the 58th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers...

 (which remains its one and only premiership to date). He played his only junior football year with Waratah

Waratah

Waratah is a genus of five species of large shrubs or small trees in the Proteaceae, native to the southeastern parts of Australia...

 in the Footscray District League. His playing measurements were 180 cm and 82.5 kg, which coincidentally are identical to those of his son Ross

Ross Abbey

Ross Abbey was an Australian rules football player. He played with Footscray, now known as the Western Bulldogs, in a variety of positions, but mostly on the half back flank and as a ruck rover. He is the son of Angus Abbey who was a member of Footscray's 1954 premiership team...

 who also played for Footscray from 1971 to 1981. He retired from VFL

Australian Football League

The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...

football in 1954, having played 78 games.