Ray_Harvey_(footballer)

Ray Harvey (footballer)

Ray Harvey (footballer)

Australian rules footballer

Ray Harvey (28 July 1929 – 17 September 2003)[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[2]

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Harvey won the best and fairest award in the Melbourne thirds (junior) team in 1948.[3] He only played two games in 1949, kicking two goals in his debut match,[4] before requesting a transfer to Prahran Football Club in the Victorian Football Association.[5]

Harvey played his first 142 games consecutively and won four Prahran best and fairest awards.

In 2003, he was selected in Prahran's Team of the Century.

Notes

  1. [1]
    "Ray Harvey – Player Bio". Australian Football. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
  2. [2]
    Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2009). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (8th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 353. ISBN 978-1-921496-00-4.
  3. [3]
    "MELBOURNE TRIES TWO NEW MEN". The Argus. Melbourne. 12 August 1949. p. 14. Retrieved 15 October 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. [4]
    "GOSSIP FROM VFL CLUBS Carlton Almost Missed Bus". The Argus. Melbourne. 15 August 1949. p. 13. Retrieved 15 October 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. [5]
    "Preston wants "Tiger" player". The Argus. Melbourne. 12 April 1950. p. 26. Retrieved 15 October 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
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