George Lionel Swarbrick (11 December 1930 – 12 December 2016) was an

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

er who played for

Geelong Geelong ( ) (Wathawurrung: ''Djilang''/''Djalang'') is a port city in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria, located at the eastern end of Corio Bay (the smaller western portion of Port Phillip Bay) and the left bank of Barwon River, ...

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 1950s. Swarbrick, despite playing just two seasons, holds a place in Geelong football history for kicking the match winning behind in the dying seconds of their one-point win over North Melbourne in 1953, which beat Collingwood's league record of 20 consecutive VFL victories, set in the 1920s. He was the nephew of club great

Lindsay White Lindsay G. White (5 January 1922 – 13 March 1977) was an Australian rules footballer who represented and in the Victorian Football League (1897–1989), Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1940s. White was regarded as one of the bes ...

and appeared in Geelong's losing

1953 VFL Grand Final The 1953 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Geelong Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 26 September 1953. It was the 56th annual Grand Final of the V ...

team as a forward. He left Geelong to return home in 1954. He took over as Captain-coach of

Port Fairy Port Fairy (historically known as Belfast) is a coastal town in south-western Victoria, Australia. It lies on the Princes Highway in the Shire of Moyne, west of Warrnambool and west of Melbourne, at the point where the Moyne River enters the S ...

in the Hampden league. He won back to back Maskell Medals with Port Fairy in 1958 and 1959.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Swarbrick, George 1930 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Geelong Football Club players Port Fairy Football Club players 2016 deaths