Ted Potter (born 11 November 1944) 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. A key defender, he was a regular in the
Collingwood Magpies
The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies or colloquially the Pies, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. The club w ...
side throughout the 1960s.
He is remembered for being the player whose supposedly wayward handball was intercepted by
Barry Breen that resulted in the winning point for St Kilda in the
1966 VFL Grand Final; however, this is a misnomer, as the ball spilled free and was never actually handballed.
He retired in 1972 with 182 games to his name, the most ever by a player without scoring a goal.
References
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Collingwood Forever Profile
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1944 births
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Collingwood Football Club players
Greensborough Football Club players
Living people