Tom Nelson (3 February 1883 – 3 July 1957) was an

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 with 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). Nelson wrote the lyrics to the club song, "Good Old Collingwood Forever" to tune of "

Goodbye, Dolly Gray "Goodbye, Dolly Gray" is a music hall song, with lyrics by American Will D. Cobb and music by American Paul Barnes, first published in 1897 by the Morse Music Publishing Company ( Theodore F. Morse). The song was the publishers' first hit. His ...

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at Collingwood Forever 1883 births 1957 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) Collingwood Football Club players Yarraville Football Club players {{AFL-bio-1883-stub