Laurie Gallagher

Laurie Gallagher
Laurie Gallagher
	Gallagher in 1945
Personal information
Full name	Laurie Gallagher
Date of birth	11 June 1924
Date of death	12 December 2012 (aged 88)
Original team(s)	Fitzroy Seconds / Abbotsford
Height	175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	79.5 kg (175 lb)
Playing career1
	1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1945.
	Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Last updated April 17, 2019

Laurie Gallagher (11 June 1924 – 12 December 2012) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL). ^[1]

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 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.

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.

Notes

↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 303. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.

External links

Laurie Gallagher's playing statistics from AFL Tables
Profile on Collingwood Forever

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[encyc-1] Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 303. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.