| Brendan Bower | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||
| Date of birth | 4 August 1966 | ||
| Original team(s) | Mildura | ||
| Debut | Round 5, 1986, Richmond vs. St Kilda, at M.C.G. | ||
| Height | 188 cm (6 ft 2 in) | ||
| Weight | 78 kg (172 lb) | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1986–1991 | Richmond | 92 (19) | |
| 1992 | Essendon | 3 (3) | |
| 1993 | North Melbourne | 2 (3) | |
| Total | 97 (25) | ||
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1993. | |||
| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
Brendan Bower is an Australian rules footballer who played for Richmond, Essendon and North Melbourne. He made his debut with Richmond against St Kilda in round 5 of 1986 season and played 92 games with Richmond. He was drafted by Essendon in 1991 AFL Draft and played 3 games in the 1992 season. In the 1992 AFL Draft he was picked up by North Melbourne and played 2 games for them in 1993.
Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, or simply called Aussie rules, football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of eighteen players on an oval-shaped field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by kicking the oval-shaped ball between goal posts or between goal and behind posts.
The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed the Tigers, is a professional Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition. Between its inception in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond in 1885 and 1907, the club competed in the Victorian Football Association (VFA), winning two premierships. Richmond joined the Victorian Football League in 1908 and has since won twelve premierships, most recently in 2019.
The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed the Bombers, is a professional Australian rules football club that plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition. Thought to have formed in 1872, the club played its first recorded game on 7 June 1873 against a Carlton Second 20, winning 1 goal to nil. The club played a senior club in the Victorian Football Association in 1878, one year after the VFA formed. It is historically associated with Essendon, a suburb in the north-west of Melbourne, Victoria. Since 2013, the club has been headquartered at The Hangar, Melbourne Airport, and plays its home games at either Docklands Stadium or the Melbourne Cricket Ground; throughout most of its history the club's home ground and headquarters was Windy Hill, Essendon, where it played from 1922 until 1991. While it stopped playing games at the ground thereafter, Windy Hill remained its training and administration base until the end of 2013. Dyson Heppell is the current team captain.
