Colin G. Boyd is a former Australian rules football

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er who played with Footscray

Western Bulldogs

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 and Essendon

Essendon Football Club

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 in the Victorian Football League

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 (VFL) during the 1970s.

Boyd, who was from Sale

Sale, Victoria

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, spent the 1973 VFL season

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 at Footscray. A defender, he played for VFA

Victorian Football League

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 club Williamstown

Williamstown Football Club

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 in 1975 and 1976. In the second of those years he was a Field Medal winner, for the 'best and fairest' in the league's second division.

Essendon gave him a second chance at VFL football in 1977 and he missed just three games in his first season and was awarded 16 Brownlow Medal

Brownlow Medal

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 votes. Only Simon Madden

Simon Madden

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 took home more votes for Essendon in the count. By 1979 he was playing most of his football in the reserves and won the Gardiner Medal

Gardiner Medal

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.

From 1980 to 1987, Boyd played at Leongatha and was their captain-coach in 1980, 1981 and 1987.