| Bruce Brown | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Bruce W. Brown | ||
| Date of birth | 6 October 1951 | ||
| Original team(s) | Essex Heights | ||
| Height | 187 cm (6 ft 2 in) | ||
| Weight | 83 kg (183 lb) | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1971 | Melbourne | 6 (0) | |
| 1972 | Essendon | 1 (0) | |
| Total | 7 (0) | ||
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1972. | |||
| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
Bruce W. Brown (born 6 October 1951) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne and Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
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 Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Demons, is a professional Australian rules football club, playing in the Australian Football League (AFL). It is named after and based in the city of Melbourne, Victoria, and plays its home games at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).
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.
From Essex Heights originally, Brown started his VFL career at Melbourne. He played six senior games for Melbourne in the 1971 VFL season and performed well in the reserves, sharing a Gardiner Medal with Bob Heard of Collingwood. [1]
The 1971 Victorian Football League season was the 75th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.
The Gardiner Medal was an Australian rules football award, formerly awarded to the best and fairest player in the VFL Reserves competition.
Robert "Bob" Heard is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood and Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1970s.
He spent the 1972 season at Essendon, played for Port Melbourne in 1973 and two years later joined Brunswick. [2]
The Port Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Borough, is an Australian rules football club based in the Melbourne suburb of Port Melbourne and is currently playing in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Brunswick Football Club was an Australian rules football club which played in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) from 1897 until 1991. Based in Brunswick, Victoria, for most of their time in the Association they were known as the Magpies, and wore black and white guernseys. In its final two seasons in the VFA, it was known as Brunswick-Broadmeadows.
He is the son of Alf Brown, a football journalist who is a member of the Australian Football Hall of Fame. [3]
Alf Brown was a leading Australian rules football writer covering the Victorian Football League from 1945 to 1979.
The Australian Football Hall of Fame was established in 1996, the Centenary year of the Australian Football League, to help recognise the contributions made to the sport of Australian rules football by players, umpires, media personalities, coaches and administrators. It was initially established with 136 inductees. As of 2014, this figure has grown to 257, including 27 "Legends".
