Mortimer 'Dan' Keily (16 May 1892 – 28 June 1967) was an
Australian rules football
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er who played for
Carlton
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in the
Victorian Football League
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(VFL).
Keily, a Brighton junior and former Havelock player, struggled to cement a place in a strong Carlton team which made the finals in every season that he was at the club. After missing out on the 1914 and 1915 premierships, Keily was a losing Grand Finalist in 1916. A wingman or fullback, he received a life suspension after Carlton's 1917 semi-final loss to
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for using abusive language toward a steward at the subsequent tribunal hearing.
The life suspension was lifted in the second half of the 1919 season, with Keily having effectively served a 24 match ban.
References
External links
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*Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). ''The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers''. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
1892 births
Carlton Football Club players
Australian rules footballers from Melbourne
1967 deaths
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