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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.
He underwent surgery to remove a malignant melanoma from the back of his neck during his football playing days and continued to play football while recovering. In the year 2000, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Later, in November 2011, he received the diagnosis of a form of bone cancer. [4] On June 3, 2017, Watts died at the age of 80.
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]
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.
Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, 76, Argentinian racing driver, pancreatic cancer. Charlie Long, 51, American AFL football player (Boston Patriots). Silvana Mangano, 59, Italian film actress (The Verona Trial), lung cancer. [114] Gianni Poggi, 68, Italian tenor. [115] Aileen Pringle, 94, American stage and silent-screen actress. [116]
Northeastern Oklahoma A&M: 5 football players were killed in a head-on highway crash (1966). Marshall: 37 members died in an airplane crash (1970). Wichita State: most of the starting players and coaches, 31 in total, died in an airplane crash (1970). Cal Poly Mustangs football team: 16 players and 6 others died in an airplane crash (1960).
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.