Henry Dalziel 'Dally' O'Brien (31 October 1918 – 15 August 1996) 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 Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

er who played with

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in the VFL during the 1940s. O'Brien played 137 games for North Melbourne and was club captain in 1944 and 1945. He won their

best and fairest In Australian sport, the best and fairest award recognises the player(s) adjudged to have had the best performance in a game or over a season for a given sporting club or competition. The awards are sometimes dependent on not receiving a suspensi ...

award in 1948, also finishing equal 8th in the Brownlow Medal count.

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* 1918 births 1996 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) North Melbourne Football Club players Syd Barker Medal winners 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1918-stub