Max Urquhart (born 7 January 1942) 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 for Collingwood in the

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(VFL) during the 1960s. Urquhart, a New South Welshman, who played in the 1959

Coreen & District Football League The Coreen & District Football League was an Australian rules football competition in the Coreen, New South Wales, Coreen district of the Riverina in New South Wales, initially formed in 1909. The netball competition commenced in 1972 in line w ...

premiership with Urana - Cullival FC, having first played in the Urana seniors as a fourteen year old. Urquhart was runner up in the 1960

best and fairest award, the Archie Dennis Medal by one vote. Urquhart then went onto the

Corowa Football Club The Corowa Football Club, nicknamed the Spiders, was an Australian rules football club based in Corowa, New South Wales, that competed in the Ovens & Murray Football League. The club merged with the Wahgunyah Football Club on several occasions ...

where he was recruited from and many belief he was a wet weather specialist and played mainly as a centreman or centre-half forward. He was Collingwood's leading vote getter in the 1964 Brownlow Medal count and finished equal fourth overall. In the same year he came off the bench in the 1964 VFL Grand Final, which Collingwood lost to

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. Urquhart played 14 games in 1966, but missed out on selection as a member of Collingwood's 1966 VFL Grand Final side that lost to St. Kilda. He later played at Wynyard Football Club and represented Tasmania at the

1972 Perth Carnival The 1972 Perth Carnival was the 18th edition of the Australian National Football Carnival, an Australian football interstate competition. It was the last of the traditional single-city round-robin carnivals in the residential qualification era of ...

. Urquhart won the 1973

Tallangatta & District Football League The Tallangatta and District Football League (TDFL) is an Australian rules football competition in north-eastern Victoria (state), Victoria and the southern border area of the Riverina region of New South Wales. The clubs compete across four c ...

best and fairest award, while playing with

Lavington Football Club The Lavington Panthers Football & Netball Club is an Australian rules football and netball club and was formed in 1918 and currently competes in the Ovens & Murray Football League. The club is based in Lavington, New South Wales, Lavington, a s ...

References

External links

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The Collingwood Player Archive: Max Urquhart Video
1942 births Australian rules footballers from New South Wales Collingwood Football Club players Wynyard Football Club players Corowa Football Club players Living people 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1940s-stub