Ron Branton
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Ronald Branton (born 10 June 1933) 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 ...
player who has played in the VFL between 1953 and 1962 for the
Richmond Football Club The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed the Tigers, is an Australian rules football team playing in the Australian Football League (AFL). Between its inception in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond in 1885 and 1907, the club competed in the Victo ...
. Branton played with
Myrtleford Myrtleford is a town in northeast Victoria, Australia, 280 km (170 miles) northeast of Melbourne and 46 km (29 miles) southeast of Wangaratta. Myrtleford is part of the Alpine Shire local government area and in 2016 the town had a po ...
in the
Ovens & Murray Football League The Ovens and Murray Football Netball League (O&MFNL) is an Australian rules football and netball competition containing ten clubs based in north-eastern Victoria, the southern Riverina region of New South Wales and the Ovens and Murray are ...
from 1963 to 1965 as their captain/coach, kicking 80 goals during that time. Branton then played two seasons with Klng Valley Football Club in the
Ovens & King Football League The Ovens & King Football Netball League is a minor country Australian rules football league based in North-Eastern Victoria in the vicinity of Wangaratta and more recently Benalla. History The ''Ovens & King Football League'' was formed on ...
in 1966 and 1967, kicking 49 goals during that time.


References


External links

* *
Richmond Football Club - Hall of Fame

Oral History - Ron Branton
Living people Richmond Football Club players Jack Dyer Medal winners Myrtleford Football Club players Maryborough Football Club players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) 1933 births {{AFL-bio-1930s-stub