Michael Gallagher (footballer)

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Michael Gallagher
Personal information
Full name Michael Gallagher
Date of birth (1966-05-09) 9 May 1966 (age 52)
Original team(s) Golden Square
Height 196 cm (6 ft 5 in)
Weight 86 kg (190 lb)
Position(s) Ruck/Forward
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
1987–1989 Carlton 16 (17)
1990–1992 North Melbourne 38 (6)
Total54 (23)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1992.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Michael Gallagher (born 9 May 1965) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton and North Melbourne in the Australian Football League (AFL). [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.

Carlton Football Club Australian rules football club

The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1864 in Carlton, an inner suburb of Melbourne, the club competes in the Australian Football League, and was one of the competition's eight founding member clubs in 1897.

North Melbourne Football Club Australian rules football club

The North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Kangaroos or less formally the Roos, the Kangas or North, is the fourth oldest Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League (AFL) and is one of the oldest sporting clubs in Australia and the world. It is based at the Arden Street Oval in the inner Melbourne suburb of North Melbourne, Victoria, but plays its home matches at the nearby Docklands Stadium.

Notes

  1. ↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2009). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (8th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 289. ISBN   978-1-921496-00-4.


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