Peter Lucas (23 November 1929 – 16 September 2019) was an Australian rules footballer, 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). Peter Lucas was a regular half back flanker in the Collingwood team. His 177 VFL games between 1949 and 1959 included the winning 1958

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against

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. He was a member of what the historian (and passionate Carlton supporter)

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called, 31 years after it had last played together, “that great half-back line of Lucas, Kingston and Tuck”. Later Lucas was an administrator and general manager at Collingwood after retiring from playing football in 1959.

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