Brian Morrison
Personal information
Full name Brian Joseph Morrison
Date of birth (1938-07-14)14 July 1938
Place of birth Longwood, Victoria
Date of death 23 December 2020(2020-12-23) (aged 82)
Place of death Benalla, Victoria[1]
Original team(s) Avenel Football Club
Height 180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 80 kg (176 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1960 Richmond 6 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1960.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

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]

Family

His grandson, Harry Morrison, plays for Hawthorn in the Australian Football League.[4]

Football

Recruited 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.

Shearer

He 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

  1. ↑ "Tribute: Brian Morrison". Herald Sun.
  2. ↑ "Brian Morrison". Tigerland Archive. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
  3. ↑ Holmesby & Main (2014), p.631.
  4. 1 2 Adams, Geoff (9 January 2019). "Fame beckons record breaking shearer". Country News. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
  5. ↑ Note that Hogan (1996), p.153, states that he played in eight senior matches.
  6. ↑ Hogan (1996), p.153.
  7. ↑ Sheep Shearing Record In Australia: 8 Hours: Prior to 1995.
  8. ↑ "Australian Shearers Hall of Fame Inductees 2019". Shear Outback.

References

  • Hogan P: The Tigers Of Old, Richmond FC, (Melbourne), 1996. ISBN 0-646-18748-1
  • Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
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