Wesley 'Wes' Fellowes (born 7 March 1961) is a former Australian rules footballer who played 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) and

South Australian National Football League The South Australian National Football League, or SANFL ( or ''S-A-N-F-L''), is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia. It is also the state's governing body for the sport. Originally formed as t ...

s (SANFL). Originally from Bulleen-Templestowe Football Club, Fellowes was a tall ruckman and son of former Collingwood Football Club player

Graeme Fellowes Graeme Fellowes (29 January 1934 – 24 January 2013) was a professional Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the late 1950s and early 1960s. After managing just eight games in ...

. Collingwood recruited Fellowes and he made his senior VFL debut in Round 13

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. He was quite a skillful and mobile ruckman, but his work rate was always questioned by the football public. He played some consistent football after an improving start to his career, and in

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he stunned people, winning Collingwood's Best and Fairest award, the

Copeland Trophy The E.W. Copeland Trophy is an Australian rules football award given by the Collingwood Football Club to the player adjudged best and fairest for Collingwood during the year. The Copeland Shield, as it was formerly known, was donated by Ern Cope ...

. Fellowes would fade away late in his 102-game career, finishing at Collingwood in

1989 File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxon Valdez oil tanker runs ...

. Fellowes played for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the SANFL in 1991.

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* 1961 births Living people Collingwood Football Club players Copeland Trophy winners Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Port Adelaide Football Club (SANFL) players Port Adelaide Football Club players (all competitions) {{AFL-bio-1960s-stub