Max Urquhart

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Max Urquhart
Personal information
Date of birth (1942-01-07) 7 January 1942 (age 80)
Original team(s) Urana, Corowa
Height 182 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 83 kg (183 lb)
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
1963–1969 Collingwood 92 (28)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1969.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Max Urquhart (born 7 January 1942) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1960s.

Urquhart, a New South Welshman, who played in the 1959 Coreen & District Football League premiership with Urana - Cullival FC, [1] having first played in the Urana seniors as a fourteen year old. [2]

Urquhart was runner up in the 1960 Coreen & District Football League best and fairest award, the Archie Dennis Medal by one vote. [3]

Urquhart then went onto the Corowa Football Club where he was recruited from and many belief he was a wet weather specialist and played mainly as a centreman or centre-half forward.

He was Collingwood's leading vote getter in the 1964 Brownlow Medal count and finished equal fourth overall. In the same year he came off the bench in the 1964 VFL Grand Final, which Collingwood lost to Melbourne.

Urquhart played 14 games in 1966, but missed out on selection as a member of Collingwood's 1966 VFL Grand Final side that lost to St. Kilda. [4]

He later played at Wynyard Football Club and represented Tasmania at the 1972 Perth Carnival.

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References

  1. ↑ "Gus is truly Lion-hearted". La Trobe Express. 9 October 2020. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
  2. ↑ "Max Urquhart Profile". Collingwood Forever. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
  3. ↑ Dr Rodney Gillett (6 August 2020). "Behind Post Snaps Hopefield-Buraja to Victory in the 1960 Coreen & District Grand Final". NSWAustralian Football History Society. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
  4. ↑ John Devaney. "Max Urquhart Profile". Australian Football. Full Points Footy Publications. Retrieved 3 October 2021.


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