| Adrian Gallagher | |
| Birth Date: | 12 May 1946 |
| Originalteam: | Yarram |
| Debutdate: | Round 6, 1964 |
| Debutteam: | Carlton |
| Debutopponent: | St Kilda |
| Debutstadium: | Junction Oval |
| Height: | 179 cm |
| Weight: | 72 kg |
| Statsend: | 1976 |
| Years1: | 1964–1972 |
| Club1: | Carlton |
| Games Goals1: | 165 (236) |
| Years2: | 1973–1975 |
| Club2: | Footscray |
| Games Goals2: | 54 (38) |
| Years3: | 1976 |
| Club3: | North Melbourne |
| Games Goals3: | 1 (0) |
| Games Goalstotal: | 220 (274) |
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Adrian Lindsay Gallagher (born 12 May 1946) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League.
He was also an outstanding cricketer in his youth and received many offers to play in England, but preferred to stay in Melbourne over the Australian winter and play football for Carlton.
Gallagher played 34 first eleven games of Melbourne District cricket for the Carlton Cricket Club between 1966 and 1971.[1]
Widely known as "Gags", he also went by the nickname "Golly" before he started to lose his mop of curly hair.
Best and fairest player for the Carlton Under 19 team in 1963,[2] he kicked one goal in the team's Grand Final win against the Essendon Under 19s, at Maddingley Park, in Bacchus Marsh, on 12 October 1963.[3]
Gallagher made his debut for the Carlton First XVIII on 23 May 1964 (round 6), against St Kilda at the Junction Oval. He was a tenacious, courageous left-footer, renowned for fearlessly burrowing into dense packs and coming out with the ball.
Under the short-lived VFL's "10-year rule", which allowed players with ten years' service at one club to move to another club without a clearance,[4] Gallagher left Carlton and moved to Footscray at the beginning of the 1973 season.[5] [6]
In 1976 he moved to North Melbourne, but only played one game