Kevin Thomas Rose (born 4 June 1939) is a former

Australian rules 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 ...

footballer who played for Collingwood in the VFL. He was one of four brothers who played for Collingwood with the most famous being his older brother Bob Rose. Rose started his career as a half back flanker before becoming a ruck-rover. He was a Collingwood premiership player in 1958 and played in three losing grand final teams. He subsequently played for six years with Prahran on the Victorian Football Association. In 2003 he was selected in

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's Team of the Century. After retiring as a player he took up coaching and was appointed senior coach of Fitzroy in 1975. From 1996 to 1998 he was president of the Collingwood Football Club before being replaced by

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. In 2015 Kevin Rose was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia for "service to the community, and to Australian Rules football."

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Kevin Rose's coaching statistics
from AFL Tables 1939 births Living people Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Collingwood Football Club players Collingwood Football Club premiership players Prahran Football Club players Fitzroy Football Club coaches Prahran Football Club coaches Collingwood Football Club administrators VFL/AFL premiership players Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia {{AFL-bio-1930s-stub