Kevin Pay (1 November 1939 – 29 June 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 with Collingwood 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). Pay kicked all of his 31 career goals, playing as a

full-forward Full-forward is a position in Australian rules football and Gaelic football with a key focus on kicking goals. The Coleman Medal is awarded to the player, often a full-forward, who has kicked the most goals in an Australian Football League se ...

, in the

1961 VFL season The 1961 VFL season was the 65th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 15 April until 23 September, and comprised an ...

and the tally was enough to top Collingwood's goal-kicking. In just his third league game, against Footscray at

Western Oval Whitten Oval (also known as Victoria University Whitten Oval under a naming rights agreement) is a stadium in the inner-western suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, located in Barkly Street, West Footscray. It is the training and administra ...

, he kicked a career best eight goals. After leaving Collingwood he played briefly with

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"Follower Cleared by Sandringham"
24 April 1964, p. 11

References

External links

Collingwood Forever profile
* * 1939 births 2020 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) Collingwood Football Club players Sandringham Football Club players {{AFL-bio-1930s-stub