Louis Joseph Daily (31 January 1911 – 29 August 1974) was an

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footballer who played for Collingwood and

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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) as well as Subiaco in the

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(WANFL). Collingwood recruited Daily from Subiaco, who he had played with from 1931 and he made his VFL debut in the 1933 season. He spent just one season with Collingwood before crossing to Geelong for the following season. In his first game for Geelong, in round one against St Kilda, Daily kicked ten goals. He however played most of his football throughout his career in defence, often at fullback. In 1935 he returned to Subiaco and he won both a

Sandover Medal The Sandover Medal is an Australian rules football award, given annually since 1921 to the fairest and best player in the West Australian Football League. The award was donated by Alfred Sandover M.B.E., a prominent Perth hardware merchant and be ...

and Subiaco

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award that year. He was also a best and fairest again in 1936 and 1937. When he left the WANFL in 1938 he had played 92 games and appeared seven times for Western Australia at interstate level. He finished his career as captain-coach of the Mines Rovers in the

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* * 1911 births Collingwood Football Club players Geelong Football Club players Subiaco Football Club players Sandover Medal winners Mines Rovers Football Club players Australian rules footballers from Western Australia 1974 deaths {{AFL-bio-1911-stub