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Geoff Collins (Australian rules footballer)

Geoff Collins (Australian rules footballer)

Australian rules footballer

For the American football coach, see Geoff Collins (American football).

Geoffrey Anthony Collins (10 August 1926 – 14 August 2005)[1] was an Australian rules football player in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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Geoff Collins played in the Melbourne premiership team of 1948, and again in the losing 1954 Grand Final side.

War service

Collins served in the Korean War as a fighter pilot,[2] flying Gloster Meteor jets with 77 Squadron RAAF between 1 January and 14 August 1953.

Notes

  1. [1]
    "Geoff Collins – Player Bio". Australian Football. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
  2. [2]
    Main & Allen, (2002), p.x.

References

  • Main, J. & Allen, D., Fallen — The Ultimate Heroes: Footballers Who Never Returned From War, Crown Content, (Melbourne), 2002. ISBN 1-74095-010-0
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