Brian Morrison (footballer) explained

Brian Morrison
Fullname:Brian Joseph Morrison
Birth Date:14 July 1938
Birth Place:Longwood, Victoria
Death Place:Benalla, Victoria[1]
Originalteam:Avenel Football Club
Height:180 cm
Weight:80 kg
Statsend:1960
Years1:1960
Games Goals1:6 (0)

Brian Joseph Morrison (14 July 1938 – 23 December 2020)[2] was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[3]

Family

His grandson, Harry Morrison, plays for Hawthorn in the Australian Football League.

Football

Recruited from Avenel Football Club, where he had played from 1956 to 1959, in 1960, he only played with Richmond for a single season, before returning to Euroa where he worked as a sheep shearer.

He played in six First XVIII matches,[4] and in seven Second XVIII matches as a centreman.[5]

According to Hogan (1996, p.153) he was captain-coach of the Violet Town Football Club in 1964.

Shearer

He won the Australian Open Shearing title twice — in 1967 and 1968 — and, on 11 February 1972, at the RSL Hall in Euroa, Victoria, he set an Australian record by shearing 410 sheep in a day (i.e., under eight hours).[6]

He was inducted into the Shearers Hall of Fame in 2019.[7] [8]

References

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Tribute: Brian Morrison . Herald Sun.
  2. Web site: Brian Morrison . Tigerland Archive . 24 December 2020 . en.
  3. Holmesby & Main (2014), p.631.
  4. Note that Hogan (1996), p.153, states that he played in eight senior matches.
  5. Hogan (1996), p.153.
  6. Web site: Sheep Shearing Record In Australia: 8 Hours: Prior to 1995. . 2024-02-07 . www.shearingworld.com.
  7. Web site: Shear Outback. Australian Shearers Hall of Fame Inductees 2019.
  8. News: Adams . Geoff . Fame beckons record breaking shearer . 24 December 2020 . Country News . 9 January 2019 . en-AU.