Alan Leslie Osborne (born 7 December 1940) is a former
Australian rules footballer who played for
St Kilda in the
Victorian Football League
The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...
(VFL) during the early 1960s.
Osborne could play in a variety of positions, from forward,
ruckman to
back pocket. He spent just two seasons at St Kilda and made nine of his eleven appearances in the
1962 VFL season
The 1962 VFL season was the 66th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 21 April until 29 September, and comprised an ...
. A VFA representative in the
1966 Hobart Carnival, Osborne previously played for the league in 1961, 1964 and 1965. He was a premiership player at
Dandenong
Dandenong is a southeastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, about from the Melbourne CBD. It is the council seat of the City of Greater Dandenong local government area, with a recorded population of 30,127 at the . Situated mainly ...
in 1967 where he was charged, but exonerated, of kicking, in the Grand Final.
See also
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1967 VFA Grand Final
The 1967 VFA Division 1 Grand Final was an Australian rules football match played between the Dandenong Redlegs and the Port Melbourne Borough. The match was held on Sunday 24 September 1967 at the Punt Road Oval in Jolimont, Melbourne, to deci ...
References
External links
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Alan Osborne's playing statisticsfrom The VFA Project
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1940 births
Living people
St Kilda Football Club players
Dandenong Football Club players
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)