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Clarence Alfred Woodward Sherry (4 June 1895 – 19 April 1977) was an
Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...
er who played with Fitzroy in the
Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition. It includes teams from clubs based in east ...
(VFL). Sherry was one of Fitzroy's wingmen in their 1922 premiership team and also played in the side which lost the 1923 VFL Grand Final. As he retired after the 1923 premiership decider, and missed most of that year, Sherry had appeared in two grand finals from his last five games.AFL Tables: Clarrie Sherry
/ref> He was good enough to represent the VFL in interstate football on three occasions during his career.


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1895 births 1977 deaths Fitzroy Football Club players Fitzroy Football Club premiership players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) VFL/AFL premiership players 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1895-stub