John Richmond 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 for Richmond

Richmond Football Club

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 in the Victorian Football League

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 (VFL) during the early 1960s.

Richmond was recruited from Murrumbeena and could only manage four appearances in his first two league seasons. He played 13 games with Richmond in 1964 and kicked 14 goals.

A ruck rover, he could also play as a centre half forward and after leaving Richmond spent some time at Clarence

Clarence Football Club

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. He won the William Leitch Medal

William Leitch Medal

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 in 1967 and represented Tasmania in the 1969 Adelaide Carnival

1969 Adelaide Carnival

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