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Dinny Dowd

Dinny Dowd

Australian rules footballer, born 1906

Denis Austin Dowd (1 January 1906 – 1 November 1963) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy, South Melbourne and North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

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Dowd played with a number of club's across Victoria including - Iona, Ballarat, Nhill and Nar Nar Goon prior to playing with Fitzroy.[2]

Dowd was recruited to Fitzroy after being best on ground for Nar Nar Goon in the 1930 Central Gippsland Football League grand final. [3]

Dowd won the 1934 Central Gippsland FL best and fairest award. [4]

He later became President of the Corowa Football Club in the Ovens & Murray Football League in 1951. [5]


Notes

  1. [1]
    Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 235. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. [2]
    "1931 - Central Gippsland Association". Trove Newspapers. The Age. 21 May 1931. p. 4. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
  3. [3]
    "1930 - Central Gippsland: Nar Nar Goon's Pennant". Trove Newspapers. Weekly Times. 13 September 1930. p. 70. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
  4. [4]
    "1934 - Central Gippsland FL". Trove Newspapers. The Argus. 10 September 1934. p. 14. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
  5. [5]
    "1951 - Corowa FC - AGM". The Corowa Free Press. 27 February 1951. p. 1. Retrieved 11 April 2020 – via Trove Newspapers.


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