Ted Potter (born 11 November 1944) 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. A key defender, he was a regular in the

Collingwood Magpies 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. ...

side throughout the 1960s. He is remembered for being the player whose supposedly wayward handball was intercepted by

Barry Breen Barry Breen (born 7 January 1948) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League, playing with St Kilda Football Club. Breen attended De La Salle College, Malvern. His grandfather was a Gaelic footballer with the Ker ...

that resulted in the winning point for St Kilda in the 1966 VFL Grand Final; however, this is a misnomer, as the ball spilled free and was never actually handballed. He retired in 1972 with 182 games to his name, the most ever by a player without scoring a goal.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Potter, Ted 1944 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Collingwood Football Club players Greensborough Football Club players Living people 20th-century Australian sportsmen