Showing: 1955

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Thorold Merrett

Heading into the 1960 season, Thorold Merrett – the fleet-footed wingman once dubbed a

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Frank Tuck

Suspensions or injuries to key players on the eve of the finals have provided football with some of

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Bill Rose

Another of the Rose family to play senior football with the Magpies, he was a follower in the 1953

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Peter Lucas

Given that he spent more than 30 years in a variety of roles at Victoria Park, it's almost

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Jack Hamilton

It isn't often that a footballer is likened to a 'fire-breathing dragon'. But that's the tag

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George Hams

The role of ‘specialist back pocket player’ is something that has gone the way of high-cut boots

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Des Healey

Des Healey’s last two grand finals with Collingwood could not have been more different. In the

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Ron Richards

It can’t have been easy trying to make it in League football as Lou Richards’ younger

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Bob Rose

What is it that makes a footballer an inspiration to his teammates? There's no one formula, of

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Bill Twomey Jnr

It was only one line in a tiny, single-paragraph story in the Sporting Globein May of 1943. But the

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Neil Mann

It seems hard to believe of a player who ended up captaining Collingwood, winning the Copeland and

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Lou Richards

Lou Richards was almost certainly the mostly widely known – and most loved – footballer that