Jeffrey Dunne (14 May 1956 – 14 September 2020) 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 102 games for St Kilda and Richmond in the top tier Victorian Football League during the 1970s and 1980s.
Recruited from the
North Ballarat Football Club
North Ballarat Football & Netball Club, nicknamed ''The Roosters'', is an Australian rules football and netball club based at Mars Stadium in Ballarat.
The club currently fields senior, reserve and Under 19 sides in the Ballarat Football Leagu ...
in the
Ballarat Football League
The Ballarat Football League (BFL) is an Australian rules football competition that operates in the Ballarat region of Victoria, Australia.
The competition formed in 1893 as the Ballarat Football Association and was renamed Ballarat Football ...
, he played for
St Kilda as a hard running
back pocket
In the sport of Australian rules football, each of the eighteen players in a team is assigned to a particular named position on the field of play. These positions describe both the player's main role and by implication their location on the gro ...
and later represented Victoria in State of Origin matches. He won the club's best and fairest award in 1979 and 1980. He went on to coach
East Launceston and
North Launceston in the Tasmanian Football league in the mid 1980s.
Dunne died of a heart attack in September 2020, aged 64.
References
External links
Bio at Saints Hall of Fame*
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Trevor Barker Award winners
St Kilda Football Club players
Richmond Football Club players
1956 births
2020 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Ballarat
North Launceston Football Club coaches