Max Oppy

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Max Oppy
Personal information
Full name William Maxwell Oppy
Date of birth(1924-10-14)14 October 1924
Place of birth Maryborough, Victoria
Date of death 25 November 2008(2008-11-25) (aged 84)
Original team(s) Maryborough, Kew FC
Height 175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 80.5 kg (177 lb)
Position(s) Defender, Rover
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
1942–1954 Richmond 185 [1] (29)
Coaching career
YearsClubGames (W–L–D)
1956 Richmond 18 (6–12–0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1954.
Career highlights
  • Richmond Premiership Player 1943
  • Interstate Games:- 4
  • Richmond – Hall of Fame – inducted 2004
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

William Maxwell Oppy (14 October 1924 – 25 November 2008) was an Australian rules football player who played in the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1942 and 1954 for the Richmond Football Club. He was senior coach of Richmond in 1956.

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Family

The son of James Thomas Oppy (1893–1935) [2] [3] and Doris Edna Oppy, née Watson (1895–1967), William Maxwell Oppy, known as "Max", was born on 14 October 1924. He was the brother of Jim Oppy and cousin of Dick Reynolds, Tom Reynolds, and murdered lawyer Keith William Allan.

Football

Oppy, who was recruited from Kew, via Maryborough originally, [4] and won Kew's best first year player in 1941. [5]

Oppy started his VFL career as a rover at Richmond in 1942 and played in their 1943 VFL premiership side.

The following season he was pushed into defence by Jack Dyer and soon established a place in the side as a specialist back pocket, participating in Richmond's losing 1944 VFL Grand Final.

He represented the VFL at interstate matches four times. Jack Dyer called him the "player who could not be hurt. [6]

After retiring from football in 1954, Oppy returned to Richmond two years later and replaced Alby Pannam as senior coach. They managed just six wins, finishing in tenth position, which meant Oppy wasn't kept on in 1957.

Notes

  1. "AFL Tables - Max Oppy - Stats - Statistics". AFL Tables. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
  2. "1935 - THREE DIGGERS WHO DIED". The Sun News-Pictorial (Melbourne, Vic). 26 April 1935. p. 3. Retrieved 14 May 2024.
  3. Deaths: Oppy, The Age, (Monday, 29 April 1935), p.1.
  4. "1943 - Highlights of the Grand Final". Sporting Globe (Melbourne, Vic). 29 September 1943. p. 12. Retrieved 14 May 2024.
  5. "1941 - Kew FC". The Age (Melbourne, Vic). 19 November 1941. p. 4. Retrieved 14 May 2024.
  6. Reed, R., "Richmond loses one of the toughest players in Max Oppy", The Courier mail, 27 November 2008.

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