Barry Metcalfe 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...

er who played a game with 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...

 in the VFL

Australian Football League

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 and spent the early 1960s at Claremont

Claremont Football Club

The Claremont Football Club, nicknamed the Tigers, is an Australian rules football club in the West Australian Football League . Its official colours are navy blue and gold....

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Metcalfe, who was used mainly as a wingman, played his first and only game for Hawthorn in the club's 1957 away game against 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...

 at Princes Park

MC Labour Park

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. One of four Hawthorn players to debut that day, Metcalfe was on the bench and did not take to the field. When teammate Len Crane

Len Crane

Len Crane was an Australian rules footballer who played for South Melbourne and Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League .Crane made his VFL debut in 1947 with South Melbourne and played as a half back flanker...

 was appointed captain-coach of VFA club Mordialloc

Mordialloc Football Club

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 in 1958, Metcalfe joined him for the season. He represented the league at the 1958 Melbourne Carnival

1958 Melbourne Carnival

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 and he was selected to the All-Australian team.

After not playing top level Australian rules football in 1959 he moved to Western Australia and signed up with Claremont where he would make 55 senior appearances, as well as playing three games for the Western Australian interstate team.