Max Urquhart (born 1 July 1942) is a former

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 for 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) during the 1960s. Urquhart, a New South Welshman, who played in the 1959

Coreen & District Football League The Coreen & District Football League was an Australian rules football competition in the Coreen district of the Riverina in New South Wales, initially formed in 1909. The netball competition commenced in 1972 in line with the football fixture ...

premiership with Urana - Cullival FC, having first played in the Urana seniors as a fourteen year old. Urquhart was runner up in the 1960

best and fairest award, the Archie Dennis Medal by one vote. Urquhart then went onto the

Corowa Football Club The Corowa Football Club, nicknamed the Spiders, was an Australian rules football club based in Corowa, New South Wales, that competed in the Ovens & Murray Football League. The club merged with the Wahgunyah Football Club on several occasions d ...

where he was recruited from and many belief he was a wet weather specialist and played mainly as a centreman or centre-half forward. He was Collingwood's leading vote getter in the 1964 Brownlow Medal count and finished equal fourth overall. In the same year he came off the bench in the

1964 VFL Grand Final The 1964 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Collingwood Football Club and Melbourne Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 19 September 1964. It was the 67th annual Grand Fi ...

, which Collingwood lost to

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. Urquhart played 14 games in 1966, but missed out on selection as a member of Collingwood's

1966 VFL Grand Final The 1966 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Collingwood Football Club and St Kilda Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 24 September 1966. It was the 69th annual grand final ...

side that lost to St. Kilda. He later played at

Wynyard Football Club The Wynyard Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in Wynyard, Tasmania. Club history The Wynyard Football Club was believed to be formed in 1885 as Table Cape and adopted the name of Wynyard in 1890. The Wynyard Cats entere ...

and represented Tasmania at the

1972 Perth Carnival The 1972 Perth Carnival was the 18th edition of the Australian National Football Carnival, an Australian rules football interstate competition. It was the last of the traditional single-city round-robin carnivals in the residential qualification e ...

References

External links

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The Collingwood Player Archive: Max Urquhart Video
1942 births Australian rules footballers from New South Wales Collingwood Football Club players Wynyard Football Club players Corowa Football Club players Living people {{AFL-bio-1940s-stub