List of Australian rules footballers who died during their playing careers
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This is a list of Australian rules football who have died either during their respective playing careers or due to career-ending injury or disease incurred during their playing career. It includes both on-field and off-field deaths. People who had announced their retirement from playing despite still being at an age when they could still have been active, or who only continued to play in low-level amateur or exhibition matches are not listed.
Player | Age | Club | Position | Cause of death | Year |
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George Allen | 22 | Sunshine | full-forward | heart failure (during a practice match) | 1971 |
Jack Allister | 27 | North Melbourne | pneumonia | 1946[1] | |
Dave Barry | 24 | North Fremantle (formerly South Melbourne) | half-forward | run over by a train | 1913[2] |
Rhett Baynes | 25 | Perth (formerly Carlton) | ruckman | suicide (overdose) | 1990[3] |
Troy Broadbridge | 24 | Melbourne | defender | drowning (2004 Asian Tsunami) | 2004[4] |
Norm Collins | 29 | Hawthorn (formerly Fitzroy and Carlton) | utility | suicide (hanging) | 1933[3] |
Peter Crimmins | 28 | Hawthorn | rover | cancer (testicular) | 1976[5] |
Ron Doig | 23 | South Fremantle | captain-coach | on-field injury | 1932[6] |
Lyle Downs | 24 | Carlton | rover | heart attack | 1921[3] |
Bill Eastick | 26 | South Melbourne | illness | 1914[7] | |
Jock Fahey | 24 | Numurkah (formerly South Melbourne) | utility | struck by motor vehicle | 1936[8] |
Eddie Ford | 28 | Katandra (formerly Richmond) | on-field injury | 1946[9] | |
Arthur Fox | 29 | Rupanyup (formerly South Melbourne) | wingman | motorcycle accident | 1953[10] |
Ray Gibb | 24 | Richmond | utility | motorcycle accident | 1953[11] |
Brian Gilmore | 26 | Footscray | follower | car accident | 1959[12] |
Wayne Gordon | 29 | Melbourne | wingman | cancer (Hodgkin's lymphoma) | 1983 |
Ron James | 19 | Footscray | rover | waterskiing accident | 1990 |
Doug Magor | 21 | Footscray | car accident | 1969 | |
Michael Mascoulis | 20 | Port Melbourne (former West Coast rookie) | car accident | 2013[13] | |
John McCarthy | 22 | Port Adelaide | midfielder | accidental fall in Las Vegas | 2012 |
Dinny McKay | 29 | South Melbourne | forward | peritonitis (from burst appendix) | 1897 |
Darren Millane | 26 | Collingwood | wingman | car accident | 1991 |
Dan Moriarty | 28 | Melbourne | railway accident | 1903 | |
Richard Nixon | 26 | Warrnambool (formerly Richmond) | utility | car accident | 1992[14] |
Terry Ogden | 23 | Carlton | wingman | pleurisy | 1935[3] |
Max Orr | 24 | Ballarat (formerly Melbourne) | half-forward | car accident | 1955 |
Arthur Pearce | 21 | St Kilda | typhoid fever | 1902 | |
Harry Pears | 34 | Port Melbourne (formerly Collingwood) | forward | died while playing | 1912[15] |
Fred Phillips | 27 | Hawthorn | captain-coach | blood poisoning | 1933 |
Stanley Poole | 23 | South Fremantle | goal-sneak | heart failure due to Oedema of the glottis from Ludwig's angina following on-field injury | 1940[16] |
Bruce Reid | 19 | South Melbourne | half-back | car accident | 1970 |
Maurie Sankey | 25 | Carlton | ruckman | car accident | 1965[3] |
Jack Sexton | 35 | Norwood | centreman | pleurisy | 1935 |
Jeremy Silcock | 26 | East Perth (formerly North Melbourne) | defender | drowning in Bali | 1996[17] |
Phil Skehan | 26 | Williamstown (formerly South Melbourne) | follower | pneumonia resulting from an on-field injury | 1921 |
Jim Stewart | 24 | North Melbourne | appendicitis | 1942 | |
Denis Strauch | 28 | Port Melbourne (formerly Carlton) | forward | tetanus | 1965[3] |
Jamie Tape | 28 | Woodville-West Torrens (formerly Richmond and Collingwood) | defender | car accident | 2003[18] |
Doug Tassell | 24 | Essendon | defender | car accident | 1970[19] |
Jock Turner | 26 | Yallourn (formerly Essendon) | motor bike accident | 1935[20] | |
Peter White | 26 | Kyabram (formerly at Carlton) | drowning | 1996[3] | |
Anthony Williams | 26 | Port Adelaide | building accident | 1988[21] | |
Brian Willis | 21 | Footscray | 1951[22] | ||
Les Witto | 23 | Carlton | defender | tetanus | 1926[3] |
See also
References
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