Steve Donnellan (12 November 1900 – 29 June 1934) 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 with Fitzroy 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).

Football

Donnellan came to Fitzroy from Cohuna and played 16 games in his debut season in 1922. He was the

centre half-forward In Australian rules football, the centre half-forward is a position on the half-forward line of a football field. The directly opposing player is a centre half-back. Royce Hart of the Richmond Football Club and Wayne Carey of the North Melbou ...

in Fitzroy's premiership team that year but made just 11 more appearances over the next three seasons. He played with

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in the

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after leaving Fitzroy.'' The Argus'
"Echuca"
15 October 1926, p. 18

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* 1900 births 1934 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Australian Rules footballers: place kick exponents Fitzroy Football Club players Fitzroy Football Club premiership players Echuca Football Club players VFL/AFL premiership players 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1900-stub