Harvey Dunn (6 September 1931 – 7 June 2013) was an
Australian rules footballer who played with
Carlton
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in the
Victorian Football League
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(VFL).
Dunn was notably the first player ever recruited under the
father–son rule
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; he was residentially tied to North Melbourne, but his father,
Harvey Dunn Sr.
Harvey Louis Dunn (6 August 1899 – 12 September 1961) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton Football Club, Carlton in the Australian Football League, Victorian Football League (VFL). His son, Harvey Dunn Jr., also played ...
, had played for Carlton. To avoid playing for North Melbourne, Dunn played for then-Eastern District Football League club
Box Hill, where Dunn Sr. was coach in 1949 and 1950, before receiving the father-son clearance to Carlton in 1951 once the rule was established.
Dunn never played regular senior football for Carlton, and in 1954 he was cleared back to
Box Hill in the
Victorian Football Association
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. He won the club best and fairest in 1955 and played there until 1959.
Notes
External links
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Harvey Dunn's profileat Blueseum
1931 births
Carlton Football Club players
2013 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Box Hill Football Club players
20th-century Australian sportsmen
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