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Adrian Gallagher
Personal information
Date of birth (1946-05-12) 12 May 1946 (age 78)
Original team(s) Yarram
Debut Round 6, 1964, Carlton vs. St Kilda, at Junction Oval
Height / weight 179cm, 72 kg
Career highlights
  • 1963 Under 19s Best & Fairest Award
  • 1967 5th Best & Fairest
  • 1968 5th Best & Fairest
  • 1969 6th Best & Fairest
  • 1970 Robert Reynolds Memorial Trophy -Best & Fairest Award
  • 1971 Arthur Reyment Memorial Trophy -2nd Best & Fairest
  • 1972 6th Best & Fairest
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Adrian Lindsay Gallagher (born 12 May 1946) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League.

He was also an outstanding cricketer in his youth and received many offers to play in England, but preferred to stay in Melbourne over the Australian winter and play football for Carlton.

Gallagher made his debut for the Carlton Football Club in Round 6, 1964. He was a tenacious, and courageous lefnt-footer; and he was renowned for fearlessly burrowing into dense packs and coming out with the ball. He left the Blues and moved to Footscray at the beginning of the 1973 season.[1] In 1976 he moved to North Melbourne, but only played one game [2]

He was widely known as "Gags" and also went by the nickname "Golly" before he started to lose his mop of curly hair

References

  1. ^ McFarline, Peter (28 March 1973). "Rover's $24000 contract". The Age.
  2. ^ Adrian Gallagher at AustralianFootball.com