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This is a list of Australian rules football players who have died either during their respective playing careers or due to career-ending injury or disease incurred during their playing career. It includes both on-field and off-field deaths.
Peter Crimmins (8 July 1948 – 28 September 1976) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). "Crimmo" was known as a lightly built but courageous and skilful rover whose early passing from cancer is one of Australian football's saddest stories.
In 2020, Dear was diagnosed with untreatable pancreatic cancer.In 2021, Dear appeared on the AFL-centred TV show The Front Bar to promote the charity. [1] He died in July 2022, just one week before Hawthorn was to play in the "Dare to Hope" match to raise money for Pancare, a charity that Dear supported until his death. [2]
He also read the sport headlines during the news on Perth radio station Mix 94.5 from 5:30 to 9:00 am. In 2005 he was a reporter for the Seven News desk. Between 2001 and his death he was a member of the selection panel for the All-Australian team and the AFL Rising Star. [4] He was married to Rani and had two children.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com John Phillip "Sean" Wight (15 March 1964 – 30 June 2011) was an Irish-Australian Australian rules footballer in the VFL/AFL . He is a member of the Melbourne Football Club Hall of Fame [ 1 ] and was named as one of the 150 Heroes of the club during the club's 150th celebrations.
Hosted by Tony Armstrong, Bianca Hunt (2020) and Megan Waters (2021-present), with rotating panellists, former AFL players Darryl White, Andrew Krakouer and Gilbert McAdam. Much like its predecessor, The Marngrook Footy Show, it focuses on indigenous players and issues.
The Peter Crimmins Medal is an Australian rules football award given to the player(s) from the Hawthorn Football Club deemed best and fairest for the season. Peter Crimmins was a rover for Hawthorn, playing from 1966 to 1975. He died of cancer just days after the club's 1976 premiership win.
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