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This category covers Australian rules football players who have either died while playing, died directly from injuries sustained while playing, or died after taking ill on the pitch. Pages in category "Australian rules footballers who died while playing"
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.
5 players are listed as possibly living. AustralianFootball.com is the only stats site that includes dates of death. Club websites often have articles when former players die. The annual AFL Record Season Guide has recently included an obituary list for the previous year. The Ryerson Index catalogs death and funeral notices.
Australian football match at Linkbelt Oval in Nauru, where Australian football is the national sport Countries in red have participated in the International Cup, held triennially in Australia. During the colonial period, Australian rules was sometimes referred to as Australasian rules, reflecting its popularity in New Zealand .
John Douglas Coleman (23 November 1928 – 5 April 1973) was an Australian rules footballer who played for and coached the Essendon Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Coleman is widely regarded as one of the greatest-ever Australian rules footballers.
John Peck, the brother of Graham Peck, played for Hawthorn from 1954 to 1966.. He was the first Hawthorn player to win the leading VFL goalkicking award. Peck won the award in three successive years in 1963–65. [2]
Justin Crawford (20 March 1977 – 21 July 2022) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Sydney and Hawthorn in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the 1990s. Crawford, the younger brother of Brownlow Medal winner Shane , was recruited from Tocumwal in the Murray Football League by Sydney as a zone selection.
Although born and bred in Victoria, Franks played initially in the Goldfields Football Association with Kalgoorlie Railways and then at North Fremantle in the Western Australian Football Association. Usually playing as a ruckman , he was a vital member of South Melbourne's 1909 premiership team and kicked a goal in the low scoring Grand Final .