John Aloysius Collins (4 October 1904 – 25 July 1968) 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 for the

Melbourne Football Club The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Demons or colloquially the Dees, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier comp ...

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). Collins, who was originally from CBC St Kilda, was on a wing for Melbourne in their 1926 premiership team. He represented Victoria B against New South Wales in 1929. His sons, Geoff and

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, both played for Melbourne.

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* 1904 births Australian rules footballers from Melbourne Melbourne Football Club players 1968 deaths Melbourne Football Club premiership players VFL/AFL premiership players People from Murrumbeena, Victoria 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1904-stub