Ben Harris is a former 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 with the Brisbane Bears

Brisbane Bears

The Brisbane Football Club, formerly nicknamed The Bears was an Australian rules football club and the first Queensland-based club in the Victorian Football League . The club played its first match in 1987, but struggled on and off the field until it made the finals for the first time in 1995...

 in the Victorian/Australian Football League

Australian Football League

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 (VFL/AFL).

Harris was one of six pre-draft selections which Brisbane had received in preparation for their inaugural VFL season in 1987. Aged 23, he had come from SANFL club Port Adelaide

Port Adelaide Football Club

The Port Adelaide Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in Alberton, South Australia, which plays in the Australian Football League and the South Australian National Football League...

 and made ten appearances in his first year at the Bears.

In the next two and a half years he played only four more games and returned to Port Adelaide during the 1990 season. He was Port's fullback in the 1990 SANFL Grand Final

1990 SANFL Grand Final

The 1990 SANFL Grand Final saw the Port Adelaide Magpies defeat the Glenelg Tigers by 15 points. The match was played on Sunday 7 October 1990 at Football Park in front of a crowd of 50,589 .-Quarter by Quarter Scores:...

, where they defeated Glenelg.