Australian Football World Tour
Encyclopedia
The Australian Football World Tour was a series of International Rules Football
matches, organised by football
sports broadcaster and former VFL
umpire
Harry Beitzel
in 1967 and 1968.
" by the Melbourne press after a comment made by the eccentric athletics coach Percy Cerutty
, having seen their garish blazers, their slouch hats, and their hats' ostentatious plumes (deliberately chosen by Beitzel to evoke comparisons with the heroes of the Australian Light Horse Regiments in the Boer War and World War Ihttp://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-uniforms/slouch_hat6.htm) and to the effect that they were "a pack of galahs". The name stuck.
The games were played under the rules of Gaelic football
with the single exception that the Australian players were not compelled to "toe" the ball from foot to hand every few yards, and they were allowed to bounce the ball.
, South Australian National Football League
, West Australian Football League
and the Victorian Football Association
, was undefeated in the series, playing against Irish sides
at Wembley Stadium, London, Croke Park
, Dublin, Meath and Kerry in Ireland, and New York. The Galahs also played exhibition matches
of Australian Rules Football
throughout the tour, including a game in Bucharest
, Romania
.
Harry Beitzel
(Ex-umpire), promoter
Ron Barassi
(Carlton
, playing coach
Bob Skilton
(South Melbourne
)
Herb Matthews, Jr.
(South Melbourne
)
Stuart Magee
(South Melbourne
)
Norm Brown
(Fitzroy
)
Hassa Mann
(Melbourne
)
Don Williams
(Melbourne
)
Barry Davis
(Essendon
)
Ken Fraser
(Essendon
)
John Dugdale
(North Melbourne
)
Laurie Dwyer
(North Melbourne
)
Royce Hart
(Richmond
)
Paddy Guinane
(Richmond
)
Bill Barrot
(Richmond
)
Neville Crowe
(Richmond
)
Alex Jesaulenko
(Carlton
)
John Nicholls (Carlton
)
John Jillard
(Footscray)
Graeme Chalmers
(Footscray)http://stats.rleague.com/afl/stats/players/G/Graeme_Chalmers.html
Ian Law
(Hawthorn
)
Later additions to original selections
Bob Keddie
(Hawthorn
)
Peter Body (Sydney Navalhttp://www.fullpointsfooty.net/sydney_naval.htm)
Roger Dean
(Richmond
)
Harry Beitzel
(Ex-umpire, promoter)
Ron Barassi
(Carlton
, playing coach)
Kevin Bartlett (Richmond
)
Gary Dempsey
(Footscray)
John Dugdale
(North Melbourne
)
Robert Farmer
(Collingwood
)
Royce Hart
(Richmond)
Peter Hudson
(Hawthorn
)
Sydney Jackson (Carlton)
Alex Jesaulenko
(Carlton)
R. Tassie Johnson
(Melbourne
)
Don McKenzie
(Essendon
)
Des Meagher
(Hawthorn)
John Nicholls (Carlton)
Daryl O'Brien
(North Melbourne)
Bryan Quirk
(Carlton)
Wayne Richardson
(Collingwood)
Brian Roet
(Melbourne)
John Sharrock
(Geelong
)
David Thorpe
(Footscray)
South Australian National Football League
John Birt
(West Torrens
)
Neil Kerley
(Glenelg)
West Australian Football League
David Dyson (West Perth
)
Graham Farmer
(West Perth)
Murray Leeder (West Perth)
Bill Walker (Swan Districts
)
John Wynne
(West Perth)
Victorian Football Association
Fred Bayes (Box Hill
)
Geoff Bryant
(Box Hill)
Trevor Collins (Camberwell)
Gary Fenton (Sandringham)
Geoff Slade (Frankston
)
Other Leagues
Mike O'Brien (Redan
, Ballarat Football League
)
Greg Tootell (Caulfield Grammarians
, VAFA
)
Roger Hogget (NSW
)
International rules football
International rules football is a team sport consisting of a hybrid of football codes, which was developed to facilitate international representative matches between Australian rules football players and Gaelic football players....
matches, organised by 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...
sports broadcaster and former 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...
umpire
Umpire (Australian rules football)
An umpire is an official in the sport of Australian rules football.-Origins:Unlike many other codes of football, where the official is called a referee, in Australian Football, the officials borrow their title from the game of cricket, which is played on the same types of fields and was an...
Harry Beitzel
Harry Beitzel
Harry Beitzel is an Australian sports broadcaster and media personality best known for his contribution to Australian rules football.-Umpiring career:...
in 1967 and 1968.
First tour
The first team was christened "The GalahsGalah
The Galah , Eolophus roseicapilla, also known as the Rose-breasted Cockatoo, Galah Cockatoo, Roseate Cockatoo or Pink and Grey, is one of the most common and widespread cockatoos, and it can be found in open country in almost all parts of mainland Australia.It is endemic on the mainland and was...
" by the Melbourne press after a comment made by the eccentric athletics coach Percy Cerutty
Percy Cerutty
Percy Wells Cerutty was one of the world's leading athletics coaches in the 1950s and 1960s....
, having seen their garish blazers, their slouch hats, and their hats' ostentatious plumes (deliberately chosen by Beitzel to evoke comparisons with the heroes of the Australian Light Horse Regiments in the Boer War and World War Ihttp://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-uniforms/slouch_hat6.htm) and to the effect that they were "a pack of galahs". The name stuck.
The games were played under the rules of Gaelic football
Gaelic football
Gaelic football , commonly referred to as "football" or "Gaelic", or "Gah" is a form of football played mainly in Ireland...
with the single exception that the Australian players were not compelled to "toe" the ball from foot to hand every few yards, and they were allowed to bounce the ball.
First tour's itinerary
Their matches, opponents, and scores were as follows:- Saturday, 28 October 1967: Civil Service, a DublinDublin GAADublin County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association , or Dublin GAA, is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Dublin. The county board is also responsible for the Dublin inter-county teams...
club team, preliminary warm-up match. The Galahs won by two points. - Sunday, 29 October 1967: The 1967 All-Ireland Senior Football ChampionsAll-Ireland Senior Football ChampionshipThe All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the premier competition in Gaelic football, is a series of games organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association and played during the summer and early autumn...
MeathMeath GAAThe Meath County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Meath GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Meath, as well as for Meath inter-county teams.- Pre-1960s :...
, the first touring match, played at Croke ParkCroke ParkCroke Park in Dublin is the principal stadium and headquarters of the Gaelic Athletic Association , Ireland's biggest sporting organisation...
, and won by The Galahs 25-13. - Tuesday, 31 October 1967: Exhibition match of Australian Rules Football, conducted in heavy rain, under lights, at London's Crystal PalaceCrystal Palace National Sports CentreThe National Sports Centre at Crystal Palace in south London, England is a large sports centre and athletics stadium. It was opened in 1964 in Crystal Palace Park, close to the site of the former Crystal Palace, in the former parkland and also usurping part of the former grand prix circuit.It was...
between "Australia" and "Britain". The Britain team was composed mainly of expatriates, plus several of The Galahs (including Alex Jesualenko). Australia beat Britain 101 to 75. - Saturday, 4 November: The 1967 All-Ireland Senior Football runners upAll-Ireland Senior Football ChampionshipThe All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the premier competition in Gaelic football, is a series of games organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association and played during the summer and early autumn...
MayoMayo GAAThe Mayo County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Mayo GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Mayo and the Mayo inter-county teams.-History:...
, the first touring match, played at Croke ParkCroke ParkCroke Park in Dublin is the principal stadium and headquarters of the Gaelic Athletic Association , Ireland's biggest sporting organisation...
, and won by The Galahs 2-12 (18) to 2-5 (11). - Sunday, 5 November: New YorkNew York GAAThe New York County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association , or New York GAA, is one of the county boards of the Gaelic Athletic Association outside Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in the New York metropolitan area...
, played at Gaelic ParkGaelic ParkThe Gaelic Park Sports Centre , often abbreviated Gaelic Park, is a multi-purpose outdoor athletics facility in Kingsbridge in the Bronx, New York...
, New York CityNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. The Galahs lost the match. There were many brawls during the match, with the Galahs coming off second best in all of them. Hassa Mann, king-hit behind the play, had his jaw broken in three places. Ron Barassi had his nose broken by a giant New York narcotics detective (Brendan Tumulty), who broke his own thumb in the process of hitting Barassi.
Second tour
In 1968, a second representative team, consisting of elite players from the Victorian Football LeagueAustralian Football League
The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...
, South Australian National Football League
South Australian National Football League
The South Australian National Football League is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia. It is also the governing body for the sport of Australian rules football in South Australia....
, West Australian Football League
West Australian Football League
The West Australian Football League is an Australian rules football league based in Perth, Western Australia. The WAFL is the second-most popular in the state, behind the nation-wide Australian Football League...
and the Victorian Football Association
Victorian Football League
The Victorian Football League which evolved from the former Victorian Football Association , taking its new name as from the 1996 season, is the premier Australian rules football league in Victoria The Victorian Football League (VFL) which evolved from the former Victorian Football Association...
, was undefeated in the series, playing against Irish sides
Gaelic Athletic Association
The Gaelic Athletic Association is an amateur Irish and international cultural and sporting organisation focused primarily on promoting Gaelic games, which include the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, handball and rounders...
at Wembley Stadium, London, Croke Park
Croke Park
Croke Park in Dublin is the principal stadium and headquarters of the Gaelic Athletic Association , Ireland's biggest sporting organisation...
, Dublin, Meath and Kerry in Ireland, and New York. The Galahs also played exhibition matches
Exhibition game
An exhibition game is a sporting event in which there is no competitive value of any significant kind to any competitor regardless of the outcome of the competition...
of 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...
throughout the tour, including a game in Bucharest
Bucharest
Bucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....
, Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
.
1967 Touring Party
Original selectionsHarry Beitzel
Harry Beitzel
Harry Beitzel is an Australian sports broadcaster and media personality best known for his contribution to Australian rules football.-Umpiring career:...
(Ex-umpire), promoter
Ron Barassi
Ron Barassi
Ronald Dale Barassi, Jr AM is a former Australian rules football player and coach. During a long and decorated career, Barassi has been one of the most important figures in the history of Australian football. His father, Ron Barassi, Sr., was the first Australian footballer killed at Tobruk during...
(Carlton
Carlton Football Club
The Carlton Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria. The club competes in the Australian Football League, and was one of the eight founding members of that competition in 1897...
, playing coach
Bob Skilton
Bob Skilton
Robert John "Bob" Skilton was an Australian rules football player who played as a rover for South Melbourne and Victoria between 1956 and 1971....
(South Melbourne
Sydney Swans
The Sydney Swans Football Club is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League . The club is based in Sydney, New South Wales. The club, founded in 1874, was known as the South Melbourne Football Club until it relocated to Sydney in 1982 to become the Sydney...
)
Herb Matthews, Jr.
Herb Matthews, Jr.
Herb Matthews was an Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne and South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League during the 1960s....
(South Melbourne
Sydney Swans
The Sydney Swans Football Club is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League . The club is based in Sydney, New South Wales. The club, founded in 1874, was known as the South Melbourne Football Club until it relocated to Sydney in 1982 to become the Sydney...
)
Stuart Magee
Stuart Magee
Stuart Magee is a former Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne and Footscray in the VFL....
(South Melbourne
Sydney Swans
The Sydney Swans Football Club is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League . The club is based in Sydney, New South Wales. The club, founded in 1874, was known as the South Melbourne Football Club until it relocated to Sydney in 1982 to become the Sydney...
)
Norm Brown
Norm Brown
Norm Brown was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the VFL.Brown joined Fitzroy from North Heidelberg in 1962. Known for his size , physical strength and courage, he was not particularly pretty to watch...
(Fitzroy
Fitzroy Football Club
The Fitzroy Football Club, formerly nicknamed The Lions, is an Australian rules football club formed in 1883 to represent the inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, Victoria and was a foundation member club of the Victorian Football League on its inception in 1897...
)
Hassa Mann
Hassa Mann
Harold Peter "Hassa" Mann is a former Australian rules footballer who played for and captained Melbourne in the VFL during the 1960s. He earned the name Hassa when he was a toddler, from his cousin and future Melbourne footballer Len Mann.A centreman, Mann was recruited from Rutherglen, Victoria...
(Melbourne
Melbourne Football Club
The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Demons, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League , based in Melbourne, Victoria....
)
Don Williams
Don Williams (footballer)
Don Williams was an Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne during the 1950s and 60s....
(Melbourne
Melbourne Football Club
The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Demons, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League , based in Melbourne, Victoria....
)
Barry Davis
Barry Davis
Barry Davis is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Victorian Football League with Essendon and North Melbourne, before coaching his original team between 1978–1980.- Essendon career :...
(Essendon
Essendon Football Club
The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...
)
Ken Fraser
Ken Fraser
Ken Fraser is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League .Ken Fraser was an outstanding centre half-forward, Essendon Football Club captain, premiership captain and player, and Victorian representative.In 2001 Fraser was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of...
(Essendon
Essendon Football Club
The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...
)
John Dugdale
John Dugdale (footballer)
John Dugdale is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the North Melbourne Kangaroos in a 15 year career which began in 1955. He shares with Jock Spencer the club record of 6 times topping their season ending goalkicking charts...
(North Melbourne
North Melbourne Football Club
The North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Kangaroos, is the fourth oldest Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League and is one of the oldest sporting clubs in Australia and the world...
)
Laurie Dwyer
Laurie Dwyer
Laurie Dwyer is a former Australian rules footballer who played for North Melbourne during the 1960s.Dwyer came close to winning a Brownlow Medal on a few occasions, finishing second in 1961 and again in 1967 as well as placing third in 1960...
(North Melbourne
North Melbourne Football Club
The North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Kangaroos, is the fourth oldest Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League and is one of the oldest sporting clubs in Australia and the world...
)
Royce Hart
Royce Hart
Royce Desmond Hart is a former Australian rules football player and coach who played for the Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League between 1967 and 1977, and coached Footscray between 1980 and 1982.Hart was a supremely gifted, determined player who was acknowledged by all in his...
(Richmond
Richmond Football Club
The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, is an Australian rules football club which competes in the Australian Football League. Richmond shares healthy rivalries with Carlton, Collingwood and Essendon. After winning five premierships between 1967 and 1980, the club hit the depths in 1990,...
)
Paddy Guinane
Paddy Guinane
Patrick 'Paddy' Guinane is a former Australian rules football player who played in the VFL between 1958 and 1968 for the Richmond Football Club.-References:*Hogan P: The Tigers Of Old, Richmond FC, Melbourne 1996...
(Richmond
Richmond Football Club
The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, is an Australian rules football club which competes in the Australian Football League. Richmond shares healthy rivalries with Carlton, Collingwood and Essendon. After winning five premierships between 1967 and 1980, the club hit the depths in 1990,...
)
Bill Barrot
Bill Barrot
Bill Barrot is a former Australian rules football player who played in the Victorian Football League between 1961 and 1970 for the Richmond Football Club and in 1971 for the St Kilda Football Club and the Carlton Football Club....
(Richmond
Richmond Football Club
The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, is an Australian rules football club which competes in the Australian Football League. Richmond shares healthy rivalries with Carlton, Collingwood and Essendon. After winning five premierships between 1967 and 1980, the club hit the depths in 1990,...
)
Neville Crowe
Neville Crowe
Neville Crowe is a former Australian rules football player who played in the VFL between 1957 and 1967 for the Richmond Football Club. He served as Richmond's President from 1987 to 1993, at the helm of the club during the 1990 Save Our Skins campaign which saved the club from financial...
(Richmond
Richmond Football Club
The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, is an Australian rules football club which competes in the Australian Football League. Richmond shares healthy rivalries with Carlton, Collingwood and Essendon. After winning five premierships between 1967 and 1980, the club hit the depths in 1990,...
)
Alex Jesaulenko
Alex Jesaulenko
Alex 'Jezza' Jesaulenko MBE is a former Australian rules footballer and coach. He is regarded as one of the game's greatest-ever players and is an official Legend of the Australian Football Hall of Fame...
(Carlton
Carlton Football Club
The Carlton Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria. The club competes in the Australian Football League, and was one of the eight founding members of that competition in 1897...
)
John Nicholls (Carlton
Carlton Football Club
The Carlton Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria. The club competes in the Australian Football League, and was one of the eight founding members of that competition in 1897...
)
John Jillard
John Jillard
John Jillard is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the VFL during the 1960s. He was a half back flanker and won the Charles Sutton Medal for Footscray's Best and Fairest in 1967...
(Footscray)
Graeme Chalmers
Graeme Chalmers
Graeme Chalmers is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Footscray in the Victorian Football League during the 1960s....
(Footscray)http://stats.rleague.com/afl/stats/players/G/Graeme_Chalmers.html
Ian Law
Ian Law
Ian Law is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn throughout the 1960s.A rover, Law won the Hawthorn Best and fairest award in just his second year of VFL football and also finished 1961 third in the Brownlow Medal count...
(Hawthorn
Hawthorn Football Club
The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League . The club, founded in 1902, is the youngest of the Victorian-based teams in the AFL. The team play in Brown & Gold vertically striped guernseys...
)
Later additions to original selections
Bob Keddie
Bob Keddie
Bob Keddie is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League and West Adelaide, South Adelaide and Glenelg in the South Australian National Football League ....
(Hawthorn
Hawthorn Football Club
The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League . The club, founded in 1902, is the youngest of the Victorian-based teams in the AFL. The team play in Brown & Gold vertically striped guernseys...
)
Peter Body (Sydney Navalhttp://www.fullpointsfooty.net/sydney_naval.htm)
Roger Dean
Roger Dean (Australian rules footballer)
Roger Edward Dean was an Australian rules footballer who played in the VFL between 1957 and 1973 for the Richmond Football Club. Dean was one of the last elite Australian footballers born and bred in the local suburb for which he played...
(Richmond
Richmond Football Club
The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, is an Australian rules football club which competes in the Australian Football League. Richmond shares healthy rivalries with Carlton, Collingwood and Essendon. After winning five premierships between 1967 and 1980, the club hit the depths in 1990,...
)
1968 Touring Party
Victorian Football LeagueHarry Beitzel
Harry Beitzel
Harry Beitzel is an Australian sports broadcaster and media personality best known for his contribution to Australian rules football.-Umpiring career:...
(Ex-umpire, promoter)
Ron Barassi
Ron Barassi
Ronald Dale Barassi, Jr AM is a former Australian rules football player and coach. During a long and decorated career, Barassi has been one of the most important figures in the history of Australian football. His father, Ron Barassi, Sr., was the first Australian footballer killed at Tobruk during...
(Carlton
Carlton Football Club
The Carlton Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria. The club competes in the Australian Football League, and was one of the eight founding members of that competition in 1897...
, playing coach)
Kevin Bartlett (Richmond
Richmond Football Club
The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, is an Australian rules football club which competes in the Australian Football League. Richmond shares healthy rivalries with Carlton, Collingwood and Essendon. After winning five premierships between 1967 and 1980, the club hit the depths in 1990,...
)
Gary Dempsey
Gary Dempsey
Gary Dempsey is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Footscray and North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League....
(Footscray)
John Dugdale
John Dugdale (footballer)
John Dugdale is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the North Melbourne Kangaroos in a 15 year career which began in 1955. He shares with Jock Spencer the club record of 6 times topping their season ending goalkicking charts...
(North Melbourne
North Melbourne Football Club
The North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Kangaroos, is the fourth oldest Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League and is one of the oldest sporting clubs in Australia and the world...
)
Robert Farmer
Robert Farmer
Robert 'Bob' Farmer is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood in the Victorian Football League during the 1960s....
(Collingwood
Collingwood Football Club
The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed The Magpies, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...
)
Royce Hart
Royce Hart
Royce Desmond Hart is a former Australian rules football player and coach who played for the Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League between 1967 and 1977, and coached Footscray between 1980 and 1982.Hart was a supremely gifted, determined player who was acknowledged by all in his...
(Richmond)
Peter Hudson
Peter Hudson
Peter John Hudson AM is a former Australian Rules Football player, considered one of the greatest full-forwards in the game's history....
(Hawthorn
Hawthorn Football Club
The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League . The club, founded in 1902, is the youngest of the Victorian-based teams in the AFL. The team play in Brown & Gold vertically striped guernseys...
)
Sydney Jackson (Carlton)
Alex Jesaulenko
Alex Jesaulenko
Alex 'Jezza' Jesaulenko MBE is a former Australian rules footballer and coach. He is regarded as one of the game's greatest-ever players and is an official Legend of the Australian Football Hall of Fame...
(Carlton)
R. Tassie Johnson
Tassie Johnson
Robert "Tassie" Johnson is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League during the 1960s. He was known by his nickname Tassie as there were two other Johnsons at the club at the time he was recruited from North Launceston in Tasmania.Johnson was...
(Melbourne
Melbourne Football Club
The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Demons, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League , based in Melbourne, Victoria....
)
Don McKenzie
Don McKenzie (footballer)
Don McKenzie is a former Australian rules footballer who played 266 senior games for the Essendon Bombers from 1960 to 1974...
(Essendon
Essendon Football Club
The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...
)
Des Meagher
Des Meagher
Des Meagher was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League .Meagher was a left footed wingman and was recruited to Hawthorn from Old Xaverians. He debuted for Hawthorn in 1966 and such was his swift rise that by the following season he was playing...
(Hawthorn)
John Nicholls (Carlton)
Daryl O'Brien
Daryl O'Brien
Daryl Ernest O'Brien is a former Australian rules footballer who played 135 games for the North Melbourne Kangaroos during the 1960s....
(North Melbourne)
Bryan Quirk
Bryan Quirk
Bryan Quirk is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League. He was recruited from Morwell Football Club in the then Latrobe Valley Football League....
(Carlton)
Wayne Richardson
Wayne Richardson
Wayne Richardson is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League.Collingwood Football Club snared Wayne Richardson from South Fremantle Football Club in 1965 before he had made his senior debut and, not surprisingly, the West Australian side was extremely reluctant to...
(Collingwood)
Brian Roet
Brian Roet
Brian Roet is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League during the 1960s....
(Melbourne)
John Sharrock
John Sharrock
John Sharrock is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the VFL during the 1960s.Sharrock played most of his career as a half forward flanker and was a premiership player in his first season at Geelong, in 1963. He spent a lot of 1966 at fullback and excelled, finishing...
(Geelong
Geelong Football Club
The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed The Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club, named after and based in the city of Geelong, playing in the Australian Football League . The club has been the VFL/AFL premiers nine times, with a record equalling 3 in the AFL era. Geelong has also...
)
David Thorpe
David Thorpe (footballer)
David Thorpe is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray and Richmond in the VFL.A centreman, Thorpe played with Footscray from 1965 to 1973. He won the Charles Sutton Medal for the club's best and fairest player in 1968 and 1972...
(Footscray)
South Australian National Football League
John Birt
John Birt (footballer)
John Birt is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the VFL. Birt had an unusual physical characteristic that sometimes reduced his capacity to impose authority in one-on-one situations; whenever he spoke, the tip of his nose would move.Birt was a rover and after being...
(West Torrens
West Torrens Football Club
West Torrens Football Club was an Australian rules football club that competed in the South Australian National Football League from 1897 to 1990...
)
Neil Kerley
Neil Kerley
Donald Neil Kerley OAM is a former Australian rules football player and coach. Known to his mates as either Neil or Knuckles and to South Australian football fans as King Kerley or simply "Kerls", he is best known for taking three clubs to four SANFL premierships over three decades as both a...
(Glenelg)
West Australian Football League
David Dyson (West Perth
West Perth Football Club
The West Perth Football Club, nicknamed the Falcons, is an Australian rules football club located in Joondalup, Western Australia, competing in the West Australian Football League . It is the oldest existing Australian rules football club in Western Australia. It competes in the West Australian...
)
Graham Farmer
Graham Farmer
Graham Vivian "Polly" Farmer, MBE is a retired Australian rules football player and coach. Born in Western Australia, he joined the East Perth Football Club as a ruckman in 1953, where he won several awards and contributed to the team winning three premierships...
(West Perth)
Murray Leeder (West Perth)
Bill Walker (Swan Districts
Swan Districts Football Club
The Swan Districts Football Club, nicknamed the Swans, is an Australian rules football club playing in the West Australian Football League . The club is based at Bassendean Oval, in Bassendean, an eastern suburb of Perth, Western Australia...
)
John Wynne
John Wynne (footballer)
John Wynne is a former Australian rules footballer who played 193 games for Norwood in the SANFL as well as 84 games with WANFL club West Perth. He is on the interchange bench in Norwood's official 'Team of the Century'....
(West Perth)
Victorian Football Association
Fred Bayes (Box Hill
Box Hill Hawks
Box Hill Hawks Football Club is an Australian rules football club playing in the Victorian Football League. It has an alliance with the Hawthorn Football Club which plays in the Australian Football League....
)
Geoff Bryant
Geoff Bryant
Geoff Bryant is a former Australian rules football player who played in the VFL between 1969 and 1971 for the North Melbourne Football Club....
(Box Hill)
Trevor Collins (Camberwell)
Gary Fenton (Sandringham)
Geoff Slade (Frankston
Frankston Football Club
Frankston Football Club, nicknamed The Dolphins, is an Australian rules football club based in Frankston, Victoria and currently playing in the Victorian Football League. The club was formed in 1887. The Dolphins have no alignments to any AFL clubs.-Peninsula Football Association:Frankston was a...
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Mike O'Brien (Redan
Redan Football Club
The Redan Football Netball Club competes in the Ballarat Football League. The club, nicknamed the Lions has a history of 58 Premierships including 10 Senior Football Premierships and was named the Victorian Country Football League Most Disciplined Club in 2004 & 2005.Redan players have also won the...
, Ballarat Football League
Ballarat Football League
The Ballarat Football League is an Australian rules football competition that operates in the Ballarat region of Victoria, Australia.The competition formed in 1893 as the Ballarat Football Association and was renamed Ballarat Football League in 1908 and was briefly known as the Ballarat-Wimmera...
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Greg Tootell (Caulfield Grammarians
Caulfield Grammar School
Caulfield Grammar School is an independent, co-educational, Anglican, day and boarding school, located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1881 as a boys' school, Caulfield began admitting girls exactly one hundred years later...
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Victorian Amateur Football Association
The Victorian Amateur Football Association is an Australian rules football league in Victoria, Australia consisting purely of amateur players. Unlike the Victorian Football League and the VFL/AFL, the VAFA has always been strictly a purely amateur league and has affiliations with both AFL Victoria...
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Roger Hogget (NSW
AFL NSW/ACT
AFL NSW/ACT is the governing body of Australian rules football in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory.The body is officially affiliated with the Australian Football League.-External links:*...
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