Christoper Grant Mitchell (1 January 1947 – 26 November 2022) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong and Carlton in the VFL. Playing with the Old Geelong Grammarians, he was awarded the Best & Fairest Award in 1965, the same year he entered

Trinity College (University of Melbourne) Trinity College is the oldest residential college of the University of Melbourne, the first university in the colony of Victoria, Australia. The college was opened in 1872 on a site granted to the Church of England by the government of Victo ...

where he continued on the field, playing in Trinity's 1st XVIII football team. An athletic, strong marking ruckman, Mitchell was handy around goals and kicked 23 of them in his debut season for Geelong in

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. He would play in the

1967 VFL Grand Final The 1967 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Richmond Football Club and Geelong Football Club at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 23 September 1967. It was the 70th annual grand final of the Victorian Footb ...

, sharing ruck duties with

Graham Farmer Graham Vivian "Polly" Farmer (10 March 1935 14 August 2019) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and the East Perth Football Club and West Perth Football Club in th ...

. In 1969 he left Victoria and signed up with

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club

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where he spent two years before returning to Geelong. He represented Western Australia in a game at the

1969 Adelaide Carnival The 1969 Adelaide Carnival was the 17th edition of the Australian National Football Carnival, an Australian rules football interstate competition. Four teams competed in the carnival, South Australia, the Victorian Football League, Tasmania and ...

. His second stint at the Cats lasted just half a season and he finished the year at Carlton. It was against Geelong that he made his Carlton debut and he kicked a career high five goals. Mitchell died on 26 November 2022.

References

* Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). ''The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers''. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.

External Links

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Chris Mitchell at WAFL FootyfactsBlueseum profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mitchell, Chris 1947 births 2022 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Geelong Football Club players Carlton Football Club players East Perth Football Club players People educated at Trinity College (University of Melbourne)