Michael John Twomey (25 September 1931 – 14 December 2015) 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 for the

Collingwood Football Club The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies or colloquially the Pies, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. ...

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). At in height, Collingwood's Mick Twomey was taller than his brothers

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and Pat. Recruited from Yarra Valley, he played most of his 157 VFL games between 1951 and 1961 as a ruckman. In fact he was short for a ruckman; but he had remarkable spring, and newspapers often carried photos of him seeming to soar over opponents. In the 1958 VFL Grand Final, for instance, th
highlights footage
from Channel 7 shows him contesting ruck hit-outs and marks with opposing ruckmen who were 11 cm and 13 cm taller. Over the course of his 10-year career Twomey was a member of five Collingwood

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teams, enjoying premiership success in 1953 and 1958. He died in 2015.

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* * Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Australian people of Irish descent Collingwood Football Club players Collingwood Football Club premiership players Ballarat Football Club players Place of death missing 1931 births 2015 deaths VFL/AFL premiership players 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1930s-stub