William John Dick (16 July 1889 – 18 November 1960) was an Australian rules footballer who played for and 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).

Career

Dick made his debut for the

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in round 6 of the 1911 season. He left the club at the end of the 1918 season. His nephews

Ian Ian or Iain is a name of Scottish Gaelic origin, derived from the Hebrew given name (Yohanan, ') and corresponding to the English name John. The spelling Ian is an Anglicization of the Scottish Gaelic forename ''Iain''. It is a popular name in Sc ...

and Alexander Dick played

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for

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, with Ian also captaining Australia at field hockey in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.

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1889 births Carlton Football Club players Carlton Football Club premiership players Fitzroy Football Club players Brighton Football Club players Brunswick Football Club players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) 1960 deaths People from Stawell, Victoria VFL/AFL premiership players {{AFL-bio-1889-stub