Don Harris | |
Fullname: | Donald Harris |
Birth Date: | 27 June 1905 |
Birth Place: | Corindhap, Victoria |
Death Place: | Melbourne, Victoria |
Originalteam: | Burnley |
Height: | 174 cm |
Weight: | 72 kg |
Statsend: | 1932 |
Years1: | 1926–1930 |
Club1: | Richmond |
Games Goals1: | 64 (5) |
Years2: | 1931–1932 |
Club2: | Collingwood |
Games Goals2: | 32 (3) |
Games Goalstotal: | 96 (8) |
Donald Harris (27 June 1905 – 11 August 1979)[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond and Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Harris, a defender, played in three successive grand finals for Richmond but was never a member of a premiership team.[2] The Burnley recruit was a back pocket in the 1926, 1927 and 1928 VFL Grand Finals.[3]
He spent the last two seasons of his league career at Collingwood.[4] His seven votes in the 1932 Brownlow Medal were bettered by only one teammate, Syd Coventry.[4] The year ended with a preliminary final loss and he then retired for business reasons.[5] He however continued participating in amateur football, as the playing coach of Kew in the Sub-District Football Association.[6]