Steven O'Dwyer (born 19 January 1966) 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

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

in the

VFL/AFL 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 ...

. A redheaded lanky ruckman, O'Dwyer won the

1988 File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Australian ...

Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Medal The Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Trophy is an Australian rules football award presented annually to the player(s) adjudged the best and fairest at the Melbourne Football Club throughout the Victorian Football League/Australian Football League (VFL/A ...

for Melbourne's best and fairest player, helping the club reach their first Grand Final since

1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch ...

. However, he missed the decider after being suspended for striking Carlton's Steven Da Rui in the Preliminary Final. O'Dwyer was traded to Richmond for a draft pick (

Darren Kowal Darren Kowal (born 18 June 1972) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the 1990s. A member of Claremont's 1991 West Australian Football League premiership team, Kowal ...

) at the end of the

1991 season File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, 1991 Russian presidential election, elected as Russia's first President of Russia, president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated ...

. Injuries forced O'Dwyer into retirement a year later only managing five games with the Tigers.

Statistics

: , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1987 File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, k ...

, , 32 , , 17 , , 3 , , 4 , , 87 , , 45 , , 132 , , 57 , , 16 , , 239 , , 0.2 , , 0.2 , , 5.1 , , 2.6 , , 7.8 , , 3.4 , , 0.9 , , 14.1 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

, , 1 , , 24 , , 16 , , 13 , , 210 , , 80 , , 290 , , 136 , , 25 , , 286 , , 0.7 , , 0.5 , , 8.8 , , 3.3 , , 12.1 , , 5.7 , , 1.0 , , 11.9 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 1989 , , 1 , , 17 , , 6 , , 5 , , 118 , , 47 , , 165 , , 76 , , 9 , , 244 , , 0.4 , , 0.3 , , 6.9 , , 2.8 , , 9.7 , , 4.5 , , 0.5 , , 14.4 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...

, , 1 , , 15 , , 9 , , 3 , , 89 , , 48 , , 137 , , 48 , , 6 , , 139 , , 0.6 , , 0.2 , , 5.9 , , 3.2 , , 9.1 , , 3.2 , , 0.4 , , 9.3 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phil ...

, , 1 , , 11 , , 11 , , 2 , , 59 , , 28 , , 87 , , 45 , , 3 , , 95 , , 1.0 , , 0.2 , , 5.4 , , 2.5 , , 7.9 , , 4.1 , , 0.3 , , 8.6 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...

, , 1 , , 5 , , 0 , , 1 , , 20 , , 27 , , 47 , , 16 , , 1 , , 41 , , 0.0 , , 0.2 , , 4.0 , , 5.4 , , 9.4 , , 3.2 , , 0.2 , , 8.2 , - class="sortbottom" ! colspan=3, Career ! 89 ! 45 ! 28 ! 583 ! 275 ! 858 ! 378 ! 60 ! 1044 ! 0.5 ! 0.3 ! 6.6 ! 3.1 ! 9.7 ! 4.2 ! 0.7 ! 11.7

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Odwyer, Steven 1966 births Living people Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) Melbourne Football Club players Richmond Football Club players Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Trophy winners