Jeffrey Dunne (14 May 1956 – 14 September 2020) was an
Australian rules football
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er who played 102 games for St Kilda and Richmond in the top tier Victorian Football League during the 1970s and 1980s.
Recruited from the
North Ballarat Football Club
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The club was founded in 1882 and has competed in the Ballarat Football Netball League (BFNL), and pr ...
in the
Ballarat Football League
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The competition formed in 1893 as the Ballarat Football Association and was renamed Ballarat F ...
, he played for
St Kilda as a hard running
back pocket
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and later represented
Victoria
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in State of Origin matches. He won the club's best and fairest award in 1979 and 1980.
Following an unsuccessful season with Richmond, Dunne coached
East Launceston and
North Launceston in the
Tasmanian Football League
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in the mid 1980s.
Dunne died of a heart attack in September 2020, aged 64.
References
External links
Bio at Saints Hall of Fame*
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Trevor Barker Award winners
St Kilda Football Club players
Richmond Football Club players
1956 births
2020 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Ballarat
North Launceston Football Club coaches