Barrie Somerville

{{Short description|Australian rules footballer}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1941|03|05|df=y}}

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| originalteam = Lucknow

| height = 174 cm

| weight = 63 kg

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| statsend = 1958

| years1 = 1958

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| games_goals1 = 3 (1)

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Barrie Somerville (born 5 March 1941) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the North Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).{{cite book |title=The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 |last=Holmesby|first=Russell|last2=Main|first2=Jim |year=2014 |edition=10th |isbn=978-1-921496-32-5 |publisher=BAS Publishing |location=Seaford, Victoria |page=835}}

Somerville was only 17 when he played his three games of VFL football. He had been recruited from Lucknow in the Bairnsdale District FL after he kicked 119 goals in the 1957 season.

City life didn't agree with him and he eventually returned to Lucknow. In 1964 and 1965 he again topped the Bairnsdale DFL goalkicking for Lucknow.

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