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Jim W. Brown

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Jim Brown
Personal information
Full name Jim Brown
Date of birth (1926-12-18)18 December 1926
Date of death 8 April 2014(2014-04-08) (aged 87)
Original team(s) Ivanhoe
Height 187 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight 84 kg (185 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1945, 1947 Fitzroy 10 (5)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1947.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Jim Brown (18 December 1926 – 8 April 2014) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

In 1948 Brown moved to Tasmania and played with New Norfolk in the Tasmanian Football League. He won the William Leitch Medal, the competition Best and Fairest that year.[2]


Notes

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  1. ^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 100. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. ^ "LEITCH MEDAL WON BY NEW NORFOLK PLAYER". The Mercury. Vol. CLXVIII, no. 24, 280. Tasmania. 4 October 1948. p. 10. Retrieved 22 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
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