Russ Hodges | |
Fullname: | Russ Hodges |
Birth Date: | 19 July 1953 |
Originalteam: | Sandringham |
Height: | 185 cm |
Weight: | 83 kg |
Position: | Ruck / Halfback |
Statsend: | 1978 |
Years1: | 1973–77 |
Games Goals1: | 38 (10) |
Years2: | 1977–78 |
Games Goals2: | 31 (3) |
Games Goalstotal: | 69 (13) |
Russ Hodges (born 19 July 1953) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne and Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL). [1]
Hodges also played VFA football for Sandringham and Kilsyth, serving as the inaugural captain-coach of the latter. In his time at Kilsyth in 1982, he jointly won the J. Field Medal as best and fairest in Division 2 (he originally finished runner-up on countback, but was later retrospectively made joint winner)[2] [3] and captained the Division 2 representative team.[4]