Geoff Driver

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Geoff Driver
Personal information
Full name Geoff Driver
Date of birth(1920-12-31)31 December 1920
Date of death 25 April 2013(2013-04-25) (aged 92)
Height 173 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Weight 70 kg (154 lb)
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
1945–46 St Kilda 22 (22)
1947 South Melbourne 2 (0)
Total24 (22)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1947.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Geoff Driver (31 December 1920 – 25 April 2013) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda and South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). [1]

Australian rules football Contact sport invented in Melbourne

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.

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Notes

  1. Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 238. ISBN   978-1-921496-32-5.

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