Adrian Gallagher
{{short description|Australian rules footballer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}}
{{Use Australian English|date=September 2015}}
{{Infobox AFL biography
| name = Adrian Gallagher
| image =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|5|12|df=yes}}
| birth_place =
| death_date =
| death_place =
| originalteam = Yarram
| debutdate = Round 6, 1964
| debutteam = Carlton
| debutopponent = St Kilda
| debutstadium = Junction Oval
| height = 179 cm
| weight = 72 kg
| position =
| statsend = 1976
| years1 = 1964–1972
| club1 = Carlton
| games_goals1 = 165 (236)
| years2 = 1973–1975
| club2 = Footscray
| games_goals2 = {{0}}54 {{0}}(38)
| years3 = 1976
| club3 = North Melbourne
| games_goals3 = {{0|00}}1 {{0|00}}(0)
| games_goalstotal = 220 (274)
| careerhighlights = * 1963 Under 19s Best & Fairest Award
- 1970 Robert Reynolds Memorial Trophy -Best & Fairest Award
- 1971 Arthur Reyment Memorial Trophy -2nd Best & Fairest
- Carlton Premiership Player 1968, 1970, 1972
- Carlton Leading Goalkicker 1966
}}
Adrian Lindsay Gallagher (born 12 May 1946) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League.
Cricket
He was also an outstanding cricketer in his youth and received many offers to play in England, but preferred to stay in Melbourne over the Australian winter and play football for Carlton.
Gallagher played 34 first eleven games of Melbourne District cricket for the Carlton Cricket Club between 1966 and 1971.{{cite web |title=Melbourne Premier Cricket: Player Stats |url=https://www.vicpremiercricket.com.au/clubs/mens-records-awards |website=Cricket Victoria |access-date=29 May 2024}}
Football
Widely known as "Gags", he also went by the nickname "Golly" before he started to lose his mop of curly hair.
=Carlton (under 19s)=
Best and fairest player for the Carlton Under 19 team in 1963,[http://www.blueseum.org/1963+U19s 1963 U19s: bluesum.com.] he kicked one goal in the team's Grand Final win against the Essendon Under 19s, at Maddingley Park, in Bacchus Marsh, on 12 October 1963.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SOpjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EJUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5846%2C2347875 Blues Win in Fiery Match, The Age, (Monday, 14 October 1963), p. 21.]
=Carlton (First XVIII)=
Gallagher made his debut for the Carlton First XVIII on 23 May 1964 (round 6), against St Kilda at the Junction Oval. He was a tenacious, courageous left-footer, renowned for fearlessly burrowing into dense packs and coming out with the ball.
=Footscray=
Under the short-lived VFL's "10-year rule", which allowed players with ten years' service at one club to move to another club without a clearance,The 10-year rule was introduced by the VFL in August 1972, in order to render it immune from the sorts of "restraint of trade" difficulties that were being experienced, at the time, in New South Wales in relation to Rugby League footballers. Although twenty-two VFL players were eligible under the rule, only George Bisset, Barry Davis, Carl Ditterich, John Rantall, Gallagher, and Doug Wade, took advantage of it – transferring to Collingwood, North Melbourne, Melbourne, North Melbourne, Footscray, and North Melbourne (respectively). The rule was rescinded in May 1973. Gallagher left Carlton and moved to Footscray at the beginning of the 1973 season.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GthjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=0pADAAAAIBAJ&pg=5007%2C5556895 Robb, Jim, "'Gags' hero after final goal", The Age, (Sunday, 20 May 1973), p. 18.]{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=WclUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4ZADAAAAIBAJ&pg=5651%2C6653125|title=Rover's $24000 contract|first=Peter|last=McFarline|work=The Age |date=28 March 1973}}
=North Melbourne=
In 1976 he moved to North Melbourne, but only played one game{{AustralianFootball|ref=adrian%2Bgallagher/9579}}
Notes
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References
- [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6-BUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qpADAAAAIBAJ&pg=5615%2C164601 McFarline, Peter, "Gallagher's Job: Manager says End was Mutual", The Age, (Thursday, 1 April 1971), p.28.]
External links
- {{AustralianFootball | adrian%2Bgallagher/9579 }}
- {{AFL Tables|ref=A/Adrian_Gallagher.html}}
- [http://www.blueseum.org/tiki-index.php?page=Adrian+Gallagher Adrian Gallagher] at [http://www.blueseum.org Blueseum]
- [http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22833420-2882,00.html Life Membership of Carlton Cricket Club awarded to Adrian Gallagher]
- [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/290/290334/290334.html CricketArchive: Adrian Gallagher]
- [http://boylesfootballphotos.net.au/Adrian+Gallagher Adrian Gallagher: Boyles Football Photos.]
{{1968/70/72 Carlton triple premiership players}}
{{Carlton Team of The Century}}
{{John Nicholls Medal}}
{{VFL/AFL club best and fairest winners in premiership years}}
{{Carlton leading goalkickers}}
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Category:Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Category:Western Bulldogs players
Category:North Melbourne Football Club players
Category:Carlton Football Club players
Category:Carlton Football Club premiership players
Category:John Nicholls Medal winners
Category:VFL/AFL premiership players
Category:20th-century Australian sportsmen
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