Roland Crosby

Roland Crosby
Roland Crosby
Personal information
Full name	Roland Crosby
Date of birth	15 February 1944
Date of death	8 April 2008 (aged 64)
Original team(s)	Shepparton [1]
Height	183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	92 kg (203 lb)
Playing career1
	1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1964.
	Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Last updated February 19, 2019

Roland Crosby (15 February 1944 – 8 April 2008) was an Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).^[2]

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.

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.

The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional competition of Australian rules football in Australia. 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

↑ "Match Permits". The Age . 17 April 1963. p. 18. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 193. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.

External links

Roland Crosby's playing statistics from AFL Tables
Roland Crosby at AustralianFootball.com

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[1] "Match Permits". The Age . 17 April 1963. p. 18. Retrieved 23 October 2015.

[encyc-2] Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 193. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.