Peter_Lucas_(footballer)

Peter Lucas (footballer)

Peter Lucas (footballer)

Australian rules footballer (1929–2019)


Peter Lucas (23 November 1929 – 16 September 2019) was an Australian rules footballer, who played for Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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Peter Lucas was a regular half back flanker in the Collingwood team. His 177 VFL games between 1949 and 1959 included the winning 1958 Grand Final against Melbourne. He was a member of what the historian (and passionate Carlton supporter) Manning Clark called, 31 years after it had last played together, “that great half-back line of Lucas, Kingston and Tuck”.[1][2] Later Lucas was an administrator and general manager at Collingwood after retiring from playing football in 1959.


References

  1. "A Glimpse of Manning Clark in 1990". Mark O'Connor - Australian Poet. 25 March 2016. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  2. Roberts, Michael (19 September 2019). "Vale Peter Lucas 1929-2019". Retrieved 20 September 2019.



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