Peter Alan John Marquis (13 March 1932 – 4 March 2005) 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 in Tasmania and Victoria during the 1950s and 1960s. He was inducted into the

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in 2005. Marquis began his senior career in 1950 with Devonport in the

North West Football Union The North West Football Union (NWFU) was an Australian rules football competition which ran from 1910 to 1986 on the North West Tasmania, north-western coast of Tasmania. In its time it was one of the three main leagues in Tasmania, with the Tas ...

(NWFU). The next season, he won the club's Best and Fairest award, as well as playing for both the NWFU and Tasmania in representative matches. In 1953, Peter Marquis began his six-year auspicious career with

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in the

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(VFL), and played as a full back when the Demons overcame Collingwood in the close 1955 and 1956

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matches. He also collected premiership honours when his team beat

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in 1957. Later he returned to Tasmania and played with

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in the

Tasmanian Football League The Tasmanian State League (TSL), colloquially known as the Tasmanian Football League (TFL), was the highest-level Australian rules football competition in the state of Tasmania. It disbanded following the end of the 2024 TSL season, 2024 season ...

(TFL). Marquis is the grandfather of

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player,

Hugh Greenwood Hugh Greenwood (born 6 March 1992) is an Australian former sportsman who played Australian rules football and basketball. Greenwood was a promising under-16 footballer, but opted to attempt a career in basketball in 2008, moving to the United S ...

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1932 births 2005 deaths Australian rules footballers from Tasmania Melbourne Football Club players Devonport Football Club players North Hobart Football Club players Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame inductees Melbourne Football Club premiership players VFL/AFL premiership players 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1930s-stub