Adrian Michael Dullard (12 January 1918 – 6 November 1989) was an Australian rules football player 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). I ...

(VFL). Dullard came under notice in 1938 with Rochester, when coached by Stewie Copeland and when he represented the

Bendigo Football League The Bendigo Football Netball League (previously known as the Sandhurst Football Association, Bendigo and District Football Association, Bendigo Football Association and Bendigo Football League) is an Australian rules football and netball comp ...

in a match against

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/ Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a me ...

in 1938, kicking five goals. Dullard played in Melbourne's Reserves' 1939 premiership team. He was a member of the

premiership team in 1941 and 1948. He kicked the game-tying goal in time-on of the final quarter during the drawn

1948 VFL Grand Final The 1948 VFL Grand Final and Grand Final Replay were a pair of Australian rules football games contested between the Melbourne Football Club and Essendon Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in October 1948. They were the 5 ...

, which set up the following week's replay which Melbourne won. Dullard played in Melbourne's losing

1946 VFL Grand Final The 1946 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Essendon Football Club and Melbourne Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 5 October 1946. It was the 48th annual Grand Final of the Victori ...

, where he kicked three goals. Dullard spent 1944 in the Australian Army. He became captain-coach of Williamstown in the VFA in 1950 and 1951, and then continued on as a player in 1952 and 1953. He was vice-captain in the latter season. He won the most consistent player award in 1952 and played a total of 82 games for the Seagulls, kicking 111 goals. His son, Tony Dullard, also played for Melbourne and Williamstown.

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