Barry Price

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Barry Price
Personal information
Date of birth (1949-03-08) 8 March 1949 (age 69)
Original team(s) Ararat (Wimmera FL)
Debut Round 2, 1966, Collingwood
vs.  Fitzroy
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
1966–1975 Collingwood (VFL) 157 (59)
1976–1978 Claremont (WANFL)049
1979 Collingwood (VFL)001 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1979.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Barry Price (born 8 March 1949) is a former Australian rules footballer who played 158 games and scored 60 goals with Collingwood Football Club between 1969 and 1977.

Australian rules football Contact sport invented in Melbourne

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Collingwood Football Club Australian rules football club

The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies or colloquially the Pies, is a professional Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League (AFL). Formed in 1892 in the then-working class Melbourne suburb of Collingwood, the club played in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) before joining seven other teams in 1896 to found the breakaway Victorian Football League. Originally based at Victoria Park, Collingwood now plays its home games at the Melbourne Cricket Ground with its training and administrative headquarters located at Olympic Park Oval and the Holden Centre.

Price was a superb midfielder in a strong Collingwood outfit. Quick, decisive, and elusive, he was soon teaming to telling effect with the Magpies' champion full forward, Peter McKenna. In the four years that Price was at his best, 1969, 1970, 1971, and 1972, McKenna kicked 505 goals, many of them from bullet stab passes from Price. McKenna claimed that Price's kicks were so hard, even from as far as 60 metres away, that after marking them, he would have red marks on his chest for days.

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Though only 177 cm tall, Price was courageous and just as productive with his hands as his feet. His evasive skills were excellent and he thrived on Bob Rose's intense training regimes, always presenting super fit. A Copeland Trophy winner in 1969, Price represented the VFL the following year, and was widely acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent centremen in the game. In 1976 he crossed to Claremont where he provided fine service in 49 games over the next three seasons. Returning to Collingwood in 1979, Price added only 1 senior game, bringing his final total with the Magpies to 158 before retiring.

The E.W. Copeland Trophy is an Australian rules football award given by the Collingwood Football Club to the player adjudged best and fairest for Collingwood during the year.

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Price is now the Director of Sport at Scotch College Melbourne.

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