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Player Age Club Competition Cause of death Year George Allen: 22 Sunshine: VFA: heart failure (during a practice match) 1971 Jack Allister: 27 North Melbourne: VFL: pneumonia: 1946 [1] Dave Barry: 24 North Fremantle (formerly South Melbourne) WAFL (formerly VFL) run over by a train 1913 [2] Rhett Baynes: 25 Perth (formerly Carlton) WAFL ...
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]
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.
On 13 November 2022, Anderson died by suicide [10] at an army barracks in Perth, Western Australia. She was 28. [11] [12] Her brain was donated to the Australian Sports Brain Bank after her death by her family.
He died at the Linacre Private Hospital in Hampton on 26 April 1996 [11] of liver failure after a prolonged battle with colon cancer. He was 39 years of age. He was 39 years of age. Barker's funeral at the Moorabbin Town Hall was attended by 6,000 mourners, and he was later buried at the Cheltenham Memorial Cemetery, alongside his sister.
During AFL Grand Final week in 2011, Hafey was awarded the "Coaching Legend Award" by the AFL Coaches Association. [ 18 ] After a brief illness due to a secondary cancer, Hafey died at the age of 82 on 12 May 2014.
Sylvia's 2010 season was marred by injury, causing him to miss seven games. However, he was regularly one of Melbourne's best players in the 15 matches that he did play and he ended the season finishing fifth in the club's best and fairest award. [3] He was also Melbourne's equal leading vote-getter, with Aaron Davey, at the 2010 Brownlow Medal ...
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.