Garry Crane (born 25 August 1944) is a former Australian rules footballer in the

Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...

. Crane was recruited to

Carlton Football Club The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's top professional competition. Founded in 1864 in Carlton, an inner suburb of Me ...

from Yallourn North Football Club after winning the club's best and fairest award in 1962 and 1963. He made his debut for Carlton in Round 17, 1964 and played in three VFL premiership teams –

1968 The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide. Events January–February * January 5 – " Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * Janu ...

1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (''Extreme''). Between 10,000 and ...

and

1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using mean solar tim ...

. He was rated the best player on the ground by the voting panel o
The Age newspaper in the 1968 Grand Final.
Crane won Carlton's best and fairest award in 1969. He retired at the end of the 1976 season.

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Garry Crane
at Blueseum
1968 VFL Grand Final match review
at Bluesum * * 1944 births Carlton Football Club players Carlton Football Club Premiership players John Nicholls Medal winners Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Living people VFL/AFL Premiership players {{AFL-bio-1940s-stub