Hope Henry Collins (20 August 1904 – 1 April 1980) 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
Richmond
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* Richmond, North Yorkshire, a town ...
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).
His sole VFL match was in Round 1, 1930. He was injured during the third quarter, and substituted off for
Ralph Empey
Ralph Empey (22 September 1904 – 28 September 1960) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Football
Empey played his early football at Scotch College and made his first VFL appear ...
at three quarter time, in what was the first 19th man substitution in VFL history following the introduction of the rule that year.
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Hope Collins's playing statisticsfrom The VFA Project
1904 births
1980 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Richmond Football Club players
Nathalia Football Club players
Camberwell Football Club players
20th-century Australian sportsmen
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