Pat Fitzgerald (footballer, born 1936)

Pat Fitzgerald
Pat Fitzgerald
Personal information
Full name	Pat Fitzgerald
Date of birth	7 May 1936
Original team(s)	Sunshine
Height	179 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	80 kg (176 lb)
Playing career1
	1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1957.
	Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Last updated September 01, 2019

Pat Fitzgerald (born 7 May 1936) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray 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 goal and "behind" posts.

The Western Bulldogs is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition. Founded in 1877 in Footscray, an inner-western suburb of Melbourne, the club won nine premierships in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) before gaining entry to the Victorian Football League in 1925. The club has won two VFL/AFL premierships, in 1954 and 2016, and was runner up in 1961.

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. 278. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.

External links

Pat Fitzgerald's playing statistics from AFL Tables
Pat Fitzgerald at AustralianFootball.com

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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. 278. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.