Kevin Grose is a former Australian rules football

Australian rules football

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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

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 (VFL).

A Reservoir Old Boy, Grose played as a half back flanekr for Collingwood over three league seasons. He played 12 games in 1975 and a further 15 in the 1976 VFL season

1976 VFL season

Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1976.-Premiership season:In 1976, 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...

. By 1977 he was only a fringe player, with Collingwood building a side which would contest that year's grand final.

Grose was then appointed captain-coach of Diamond Valley Football League club North Heidelberg

North Heidelberg Football Club

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in 1978. He promptly steered them a premiership in his first season in charge, their first flag in 16 years. In 1978 he also was the league's equal leading goal-kicker on 80 goals.