Don Harris (Australian footballer)

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Don Harris
Personal information
Full name Don Harris
Date of birth 27 June 1905
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Original team(s) Burnley
Height/Weight 174 cm / 72 kg
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1926-1930
1931-1932
Total
Richmond
Collingwood
64 (5)
32 (3)
96 (8)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1932 season.

Don Harris (27 June 1905 – 11 August 1979)[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond and Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Harris, a defender, played in three successive grand finals for Richmond but was never a member of a premiership team.[2] The Burnley recruit was a back pocket in the 1926, 1927 and 1928 VFL Grand Finals.[3]

He spent the last two seasons of his league career at Collingwood.[4] His seven votes in the 1932 Brownlow Medal were bettered by only one teammate, Syd Coventry.[4] The year ended with a preliminary final loss and he then retired for business reasons.[5] He however continued participating in amateur football, as the playing coach of Kew in the Sub-District Football Association.[6]

References

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  4. 4.0 4.1 AFL Tables: Don Harris
  5. The Argus,"A Quiet Day", 26 April 1933, p. 12
  6. The Argus,"League Sub-districts", 28 August 1936, p. 15