Dennis Le Gassick 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 Collingwood

Collingwood Football Club

The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed The Magpies, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...

 in the Victorian Football League

Australian Football League

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 (VFL).

Le Gassick made six appearances for Collingwood in the 1968 VFL season

1968 VFL season

Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1968.-Premiership season:In 1968, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus two substitute players, known as the 19th man and the 20th man...

 and another two in 1969.
He remained at the club in 1970 but didn't a senior game, so ended up joining Victorian Football Association club Preston

Northern Bullants

Northern Blues Football Club is a long-established Australian rules football club based in Preston and currently playing in the Victorian Football League representing the central and outer areas of Melbourne...

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He had considerable success while captain of Reservoir-Lakeside in the Diamond Valley Football League, with premierships in 1975 and 1977.

Le Gassick now works in the Gold Coast

Gold Coast, Queensland

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 real estate industry, having moved to Queensland

Queensland

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 in the 1980s. He had been influential in the local basketball scene and was a board member of the Gold Coast Rollers

Gold Coast Rollers

The Gold Coast Rollers were an Australian basketball team, that played in Gold Coast, Queensland, in the National Basketball League. The team was originally named the Gold Coast Cougars before being renamed the Rollers in 1992. The team was one of only two teams from the state of Queensland when it...

, who competed in the National Basketball League

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