Brian Morrison (footballer)

Brian Joseph Morrison (14 July 1938 – 23 December 2020)[2] was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[3]

Brian Morrison
Personal information
Full name Brian Joseph Morrison
Date of birth (1938-07-14)14 July 1938
Place of birth Longwood, Victoria
Date of death 23 December 2020(2020-12-23) (aged 82)
Place of death Benalla, Victoria[1]
Original team(s) Avenel Football Club
Height 180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 80 kg (176 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1960 Richmond 6 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1960.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Family

His grandson, Harry Morrison, plays for Hawthorn in the Australian Football League.[4]

Football

Recruited from Avenel Football Club, where he had played from 1956 to 1959, in 1960, he only played with Richmond for a single season, before returning to Euroa where he worked as a sheep shearer.

He played in six First XVIII matches,[5] and in seven Second XVIII matches as a centreman.[6]

According to Hogan (1996, p.153) he was captain-coach of the Violet Town Football Club in 1964.

Shearer

He won the Australian Open Shearing title twice — in 1967 and 1968 — and, on 11 February 1972, at the RSL Hall in Euroa, Victoria, he set an Australian record by shearing 410 sheep in a day (i.e., under eight hours).[7]

He was inducted into the Shearers Hall of Fame in 2019.[8][4]

Notes
  1. "Tribute: Brian Morrison". Herald Sun.
  2. "Brian Morrison". Tigerland Archive. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
  3. Holmesby & Main (2014), p.631.
  4. Adams, Geoff (9 January 2019). "Fame beckons record breaking shearer". Country News. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
  5. Note that Hogan (1996), p.153, states that he played in eight senior matches.
  6. Hogan (1996), p.153.
  7. Sheep Shearing Record In Australia: 8 Hours: Prior to 1995.
  8. "Australian Shearers Hall of Fame Inductees 2019". Shear Outback.

References
  • Hogan P: The Tigers Of Old, Richmond FC, (Melbourne), 1996. ISBN 0-646-18748-1
  • Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
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