Harry Hickey

Harry Hickey
Personal information
Full nameHenry Robert Hickey
Date of birth19 July 1917
Date of death14 September 1999 (aged 82)
Original teamSouth Footscray
Height/Weight175 cm / 76 kg
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
1937-1948Footscray174 (169)
1 Playing statistics correct to end of 1948 season.
Career highlights
  • 3 time Bulldog's best and fairest winner (1939,1945,48)
  • 2nd in the 1939 Brownlow Medal
  • Wingman in the Bulldog's 'Team of the Twentieth Century'
  • 1947 club captain

Henry Robert "Harry" Hickey[1] (19 July 1917 - 14 September 1999)[2] was an Australian rules footballer who played with the Footscray Bulldogs in the Victorian Football League. He began his career as a rover and half forward flanker before he moved into the centre during the 1939 season. He would go on to win their best and fairest 3 times, including one in his final season. After retiring he coached Rochester in the Bendigo Football League.

Hickey famously kicked a behind after the final bell in Footscray's match against Carlton in the final round of the 1944 VFL season, which saw Footscray win the game by one point, and replace Carlton for the last place in that season's final four.[3]

References

  1. ↑ HICKEY HENRY ROBERT
  2. ↑ "Harry Hickey - Player Bio". Australian Football. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  3. ↑ Rodgers, Stephen (1992), Every Game Ever Played: VFL/AFL Results, 1897–1991 (3rd ed.), Ringwood, VIC: Viking O'Neil, p. 312

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