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Brian Morrison (footballer)
Brian Joseph Morrison (14 July 1938 – 23 December 2020)[2] was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[3] FamilyHis grandson, Harry Morrison, plays for Hawthorn in the Australian Football League.[4] FootballRecruited from Avenel Football Club, where he had played from 1956 to 1959, in 1960, he only played with Richmond for a single season, before returning to Euroa where he worked as a sheep shearer. He played in six First XVIII matches,[5] and in seven Second XVIII matches as a centreman.[6] According to Hogan (1996, p.153) he was captain-coach of the Violet Town Football Club in 1964. ShearerHe won the Australian Open Shearing title twice — in 1967 and 1968 — and, on 11 February 1972, at the RSL Hall in Euroa, Victoria, he set an Australian record by shearing 410 sheep in a day (i.e., under eight hours).[7] He was inducted into the Shearers Hall of Fame in 2019.[8][4] Notes
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