Henry Robert Hickey (19 July 1917 – 14 September 1999) was an
Australian rules football
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er who played with the
Footscray Bulldogs
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Founded in 1877 as the Footscray Football Club, and based in West Footscray in the ...
in the
Victorian Football League. He began his career as a rover and half forward flanker before he moved into the centre during the 1939 season. He would go on to win their best and fairest 3 times, including one in his final season.
Hickey famously kicked a behind
after the final bell in Footscray's match against in the final round of the
1944 VFL season
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All twelve of the league's clubs competed, with returning after two years in recess du ...
, which saw Footscray win the game by one point, and replace Carlton for the last place in that season's final four.
Hickey also played representative football for Victoria.
After retiring from the VFL he was captain-coach of
Rochester
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in the
Bendigo Football League for four years and won the 1949 - Bendigo Football League - RSL best and fairest award. Hickey was still playing very good football at Rochester in 1955.
Hickey was named on the wing in Footscray's Team of the Century.
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1917 births
1999 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Melbourne
Western Bulldogs players
Charles Sutton Medal winners
Rochester Football Club players
Australian military personnel of World War II
People from Footscray, Victoria
Military personnel from Melbourne
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