Gary Dempsey

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For the Irish football (soccer) player, see Gary Dempsey (footballer).

Gary Dempsey (born November 22, 1948) played in the ruck for the Australian rules football Footscray Football Club from 1967 to 1978, playing 206 games and winning the 1975 Brownlow Medal. He captained Footscray in 1971-2, and again in 1977-8. Dempsey won the Footscray Best & Fairest in 1970, then consecutively from 1973 to 1977. He was named as ruck in the Footscray Team of the (20th) Century.

He shifted to the North Melbourne Football Club in 1979, winning the club Best & Fairest in his first year there. He played out his career at the Kangaroos, playing 122 games for them, and left AFL football in 1984. Dempsey was named an emergency in the Kangaroos Team of the Century.

In 1969, aged 20, Dempsey spent six weeks in hospital after being burnt by a bushfire near his home in Truganina and was told he would never play football again.

[edit] Post playing career

Dempsey was appointed Specialist Ruck Coach of the Carlton Football Club at the end of the 2005 season.

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Preceded by
Keith Greig		 Brownlow Medallist
1975		 Succeeded by
Graham Moss
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