Ronald Clive Hovey (25 August 1932 – 6 January 2015) was an
Australian rules football
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er who played with
Geelong
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in the
Victorian Football League
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(VFL).
Career
Hovey played in the 1947 Shepparton Boys Football Club's
Central Goulburn Valley Football League premiership team as a 15-year-old before moving to Geelong to play in the Geelong Under-19's side in 1948.
Hovey was a regular in the Geelong backline during the 1950s and would sometimes push into the midfield. He was a member of Geelong's
1951
Events
January
* January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950).
* January 9 – The Government of the Uni ...
and
1952
Events January–February
* January 26 – Cairo Fire, Black Saturday in Kingdom of Egypt, Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
* February 6
** Princess Elizabeth, ...
premiership teams.
Hovey, who finished equal seventh in the
1959 Brownlow Medal, was captain of Geelong in
1960
It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism.
Events January
* Janu ...
, his final season.
[ Hovey was forced to retire six games into the 1960 VFL season due to an ongoing knee injury.]
Later years
Following his retirement from his playing career, Hovey continued with Geelong in a number of administrative roles, serving as club President of Geelong Football Club from 1988 until 1998.Australian Football League
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.Medal of the Order of Australia
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(OAM) in the 1997 Australia Day Honours
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The Aust ...
and the Centenary Medal
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in 2001.
He died on 6 January 2015, aged 82.
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1932 births
2015 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Geelong Football Club players
Geelong Football Club premiership players
Geelong Football Club captains
Geelong Football Club administrators
Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
VFL/AFL premiership players
20th-century Australian sportsmen
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