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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.
Mark John Bosnich (Croatian: Marko Ivan Bosnić; born 13 January 1972) is an Australian former professional soccer player who played as a goalkeeper, and sports pundit.He played in England for Premier League clubs Aston Villa, Manchester United and Chelsea.
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.
In 1973 the Death Penalty Abolition Act 1973 of the Commonwealth abolished the death penalty for federal offences. It provided in Section 3 that the Act applied to any offence against a law of the Commonwealth, the Territories or under an Imperial Act, and in s. 4 that "[a] person is not liable to the punishment of death for any offence".
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]