Adrian Lindsay Gallagher (born 12 May 1946) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League.
Adrian Gallagher | |||
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Personal information | |||
Date of birth | (1946-05-12) 12 May 1946 (age 76) | ||
Original team(s) | Yarram | ||
Debut |
Round 6, 1964, Carlton vs. St Kilda, at Junction Oval | ||
Height | 179 cm (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) | ||
Playing career1 | |||
Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
1964–1972 | Carlton | 165 (236) | |
1973–1975 | Footscray | 054 0(38) | |
1976 | North Melbourne | 001 00(0) | |
Total | 220 (274) | ||
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1976. | |||
Career highlights | |||
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Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com |
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.
Widely known as "Gags", he also went by the nickname "Golly" before he started to lose his mop of curly hair.
Best and fairest player for the Carlton Under 19 team in 1963,[1] he kicked one goal in the team's Grand Final win against the Essendon Under 19s, at Maddingley Park, in Bacchus Marsh, on 12 October 1963.[2]
Gallagher made his debut for the Carlton First XVIII on 23 May 1964 (round 6), against St Kilda at the Junction Oval. He was a tenacious, courageous left-footer, renowned for fearlessly burrowing into dense packs and coming out with the ball.
Under the short-lived VFL's "10-year rule", which allowed players with ten years' service at one club to move to another club without a clearance,[3] Gallagher left Carlton and moved to Footscray at the beginning of the 1973 season.[4][5]
In 1976 he moved to North Melbourne, but only played one game[6]
Carlton Football Club 1968/70/72 VFL premiers | |
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1968: Carlton 7.14 (56) defeated Essendon 8.5 (53), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground 1970: Carlton 17.9 (111) defeated Collingwood 14.17 (101), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground 1972: Carlton 28.9 (177) defeated Richmond 22.18 (150), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground | |
Coach (1972): Nicholls |
Carlton Football Club: Team of the Century | |
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Half-back | |
Centre | |
Half-forward | |
Full-forward | |
Ruck | |
Interchange | |
Coach |
John Nicholls Medal · Carlton Football Club best and fairest winners | |
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Carlton Football Club · leading goalkickers | |
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VFL/AFL |
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AFL Women's |
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