Gary Guy (born 12 July 1952) is a former

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

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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) and

Dandenong Football Club The Dandenong Football Club, nicknamed the Redlegs, was an Australian rules football club based in the Melbourne suburb of Dandenong, Victoria, Dandenong. The club competed in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) from 1958 until 1994. Histo ...

(VFA).Holmesby & Main (2009), p.331. Guy was recruited by Melbourne from the Carrum Football Club, where he had captained Carrum to back-to-back Mornington Peninsula Football League (MPFL) premierships in 1973–74 while coached by his father Ivan Guy. He finished second in the 1974 MPFL best and fairest count behind teammate Ron Stubbs. Guy would make his VFL debut for Melbourne in round 1 of the

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, playing in 15 consecutive matches before injuring his shoulder. He would leave Melbourne at the end of the 1976 season, later playing in the VFA with Frankston and Dandenong.

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Green, Laura, "Couple celebrates 70 year anniversary", ''The Bayside News'', Monday, 20 July, 2020.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Guy, Gary 1952 births Living people Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Melbourne Football Club players 20th-century Australian sportsmen