| Gary Arnold | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Gary E. Arnold | ||
| Date of birth | 5 December 1943 | ||
| Original team(s) | Rosebery | ||
| Height | 178 cm (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Weight | 73 kg (161 lb) | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1963–1964 | Richmond | 13 (7) | |
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1964. | |||
| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
Gary Arnold (born 5 December 1943) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond 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 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 Richmond, Melbourne 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 eleven premierships, most recently in 2017.
The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional competition of Australian rules football. Through the AFL Commission, the AFL also serves as the sport's governing body, and is responsible for controlling the laws of the game. The league was founded as the Victorian Football League (VFL) as a breakaway from the previous Victorian Football Association (VFA), with its inaugural season commencing in 1897. Originally comprising only teams based in the Australian state of Victoria, the competition's name was changed to the Australian Football League for the 1990 season, after expanding to other states throughout the 1980s.
Arnold, a Tasmanian, was a rover who came to Richmond from Rosebery. [1] He played nine games in the 1963 VFL season. [2] The following year he made only four appearances, but won the Gardiner Medal for his performances in the reserves. [3]
Rosebery is a town on the west coast of Tasmania, Australia. It is at the northern end of the West Coast Range, in the shadow of Mount Black and adjacent to the Pieman River now Lake Pieman.
The 1963 Victorian Football League season was the 67th 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.
He spent the 1965 season with the Dandenong Football Club and then joined Claremont in 1966. [4]
Dandenong Football Club was an Australian rules football club which played in the Victorian Football Association (VFA). Based in the Melbourne suburb of Dandenong, the Redlegs wore navy blue and red as their club colours.
The Claremont Football Club, nicknamed Tigers, is an Australian rules football club based in Claremont, Western Australia, that currently plays in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). Its official colours are navy blue and gold. Formed as the "Cottesloe Beach Football Club" in 1906, the club entering the WAFL in 1925 as the "Claremont-Cottesloe Football Club"', changing its name to the present in 1935. Claremont have won 12 senior premierships since entering the competition, including most recently the 2011 and 2012 premierships.
