David Neil O'Halloran (8 September 1955 – 11 April 2013) was an

Australian rules 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 ...

footballer who played with Hawthorn in the

Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition. It includes teams from clubs based in east ...

(VFL). Recruited from

Ivanhoe Grammar School Ivanhoe Grammar School is a private, co-educational, Anglican, day school, located in Ivanhoe (Buckley House and The Ridgeway Campus) and Doreen (Plenty Campus), both located in the north-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Foun ...

, O'Halloran debuted for Hawthorn in

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as a defender and was a premiership player that year. Nicknamed "Rubber", O'Halloran won another premiership with Hawthorn in

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and after being on the losing grand final team two years later he left Hawthorn, finishing with 160 games. A

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representative in interstate football, O'Halloran was selected in the

1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C. ...

'Team of the Year' by the VFL.

Death

Married with two children, O'Halloran died from a heart attack while cycling on 11 April 2013 at age 57.

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* * 1955 births 2013 deaths Hawthorn Football Club players Hawthorn Football Club premiership players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Place of birth missing Place of death missing VFL/AFL premiership players People educated at Ivanhoe Grammar School 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1950s-stub