Paul Rouvray 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 Adelaide in the Australian Football League

Australian Football League

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 (AFL).

Although originally drafted by Melbourne

Melbourne Football Club

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, it was at Adelaide that Rouvray played his first AFL game. An original squad member from 1991, Rouvray didn't break into the team until round 19 of the 1992 season

1992 AFL season

Results and statistics for the Australian Football League season of 1992. The AFL Grand Final this year was won by the West Coast Eagles, who became the first non-Victorian club to win a Premiership.-Ladder:...

. He was the full-back in the 1992 SANFL Grand Final

1992 SANFL Grand Final

The 1992 SANFL Grand Final saw the Port Adelaide Magpies defeat the Glenelg Tigers by 56 points. The match was played on Saturday 3 October 1992 at Football Park in wet weather in front of a crowd of 42,242 ....

 for Glenelg and finished on the losing side.

Rouvray, who was also used as a wingman, made nine AFL appearances in 1993 and another 11 in 1994. He was then traded to the Sydney Swans

Sydney Swans

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, in a swap with Peter Caven

Peter Caven

Peter Caven is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League. He played initially as a nagging, sometimes ungainly but effective defender and built on this base to become a sweeping counterattacking central defender.-Tony Lockett incident:In 1994, playing for...

but never earned a call up to the seniors. He finished his career at Glenelg in 1999, having played 113 games.