Harold Bray

{{short description|Australian rules footballer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2015}}

{{Use Australian English|date=September 2015}}

{{Infobox AFL biography

| name = Harold Bray

| image = Harold Bray.jpg

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| fullname = Harold Cecil Bray

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1920|7|5|df=y}}

| birth_place = Melbourne, Victoria

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1999|6|27|1920|7|5|df=yes}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.heavenaddress.com/Harold-Cecil-BRAY/299416/ |title=Service was conducted at Fawkner Memorial Park for Harold Cecil BRAY Age : 78 on the 30-June-1999 |access-date=20 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924025449/http://www.heavenaddress.com/Harold-Cecil-BRAY/299416/ |archive-date=24 September 2015 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}

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| originalteam = Prahran (VFA)

| height = 178 cm

| weight = 76 kg

| position =

| statsend = 1952

| years1 = 1941–1952

| club1 = St Kilda

| games_goals1 = 156 (15)

| careerhighlights =

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Harold Cecil Bray[http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/DetailsReports/ItemDetail.aspx?Barcode=6074876&isAv=N BRAY HAROLD CECIL] (5 July 1920 – 27 June 1999){{cite web|url=http://australianfootball.com/players/player/Harold%2BBray/6729|title=Harold Bray – Player Bio|publisher=Australian Football|access-date=10 December 2014}} was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Bray was recruited to the Saints from Prahran in 1941 and for the next ten years served the club with distinction as a pacy centreman.

He fell two votes shy of winning the Brownlow Medal in his final season, 1952,{{cite web |title=1952 - Dramatic finish to Brownlow voting |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/23213155 |publisher=The Argus |access-date=7 March 2021 |pages=8 |date=4 September 1952}} after finishing third in 1949{{cite web |title=1949 - Clegg believes switch won him medal |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/246032247 |publisher=The Herald |access-date=7 March 2021 |pages=24 |date=1 September 1949}} and second in 1947.{{cite web |title=1947 - Deacon wins from Bray |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/22505110 |publisher=The Argus |access-date=7 March 2021 |pages=20 |date=4 September 1947}}

He did, however, twice win St.Kilda's best and fairest award in 1945 and 1947 and also represented the VFL in interstate football.