Neil Evans (footballer)

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Neil Evans
Personal information
Full name Neil R. Evans
Date of birth (1947-02-06) 6 February 1947 (age 77)
Original team(s) University High School Old Boys
Height 191 cm (6 ft 3 in)
Weight 92 kg (203 lb)
Position(s) Ruckman [1]
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
1967–1968 Essendon 12 (7)
1969 West Perth 13 (0)
1972–1973 Sandringham 16 (10)
Total41 (17)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1973.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Neil Evans (born 6 February 1947) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Evans, who spent his early football years with both Essendon Baptists St John's juniors and University High School Old Boys, played his football as a ruckman. After playing 10 games with Essendon in 1967, Evans was kept out of the side for most of the 1968 season with a hamstring injury. [2] His first game of the year was a preliminary final and a week later he appeared in the 1968 VFL Grand Final, which Essendon lost to Carlton by just three points. [3]

After coming close in 1968, Evans was a member of a premiership team in 1969, with West Perth in the West Australian National Football League. It was his only season at West Perth, a club that his elder brother and future AFL chairman Ron Evans played for earlier in the decade. He finished his career with two seasons at Sandringham in the Victorian Football Association.

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References

  1. ↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia Of AFL Footballers. BAS Publishing. ISBN   978-1-920910-78-5.
  2. ↑ "Neil Evans biography". Essendon Football Club official website. Archived from the original on 17 March 2011.
  3. ↑ AFL Tables: Neil Evans
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