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Brendon Hackwill

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Brendon Hackwill
Personal information
Full name Brendon Alan Hackwill
Date of birth (1942-05-09)9 May 1942
Date of death 3 August 1995(1995-08-03) (aged 53)
Original team(s) West Preston
Height 193 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Weight 89 kg (196 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1965–66 Fitzroy 17 (5)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1966.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Brendon Alan Hackwill (9 May 1942 - 3 August 1995)[1] was an Australian sportsman who played Australian rules football for Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1960s and also represented his country at basketball.

Hackwill was with Fitzroy in what was a bad era for the club and experienced just the solitary win from his 17 senior games. As a basketball player he had represented Australia at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo where they finished ninth out of the 16 competing nations.[2] He appeared in nine games and scored 12 points in a win over Mexico.

References

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  1. ^ "Brendon Hackwill - Player Bio". Australian Football. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
  2. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Brendon Hackwill Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
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