Don Harris (Australian footballer)

Don Harris
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Full name	Don Harris
Date of birth	27 June 1905
Original team	Burnley
Height/Weight	174 cm / 72 kg
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1926-1930 1931-1932 Total -	Richmond Collingwood	64 (5) 32 (3) 96 (8)
1 Playing statistics to end of 1932 season .

Don Harris (born 27 June 1905) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond and Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Harris, a defender, played in three successive grand finals for Richmond but was never a member of a premiership team.^[1] The Burnley recruit was a back pocket in the 1926, 1927 and 1928 VFL Grand Finals.^[2]

He spent the last two seasons of his league career at Collingwood.^[3] His seven votes in the 1932 Brownlow Medal were bettered by only one teammate, Syd Coventry.^[3] The year ended with a preliminary final loss and he then retired for business reasons.^[4] He however continued participating in amateur football, as the playing coach of Kew in the Sub-District Football Association.^[5]

References

1. ^ "Don Harris (Richmond & Collingwood)". Full Points Footy. http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/h.htm#Don%20Harris%20%28Richmond%20&%20Collingwood%29. 
2. ^ Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia Of AFL Footballers. BAS Publishing. ISBN 9781920910785. 
3. ^ ^{a b} AFL Tables: Don Harris
4. ^ The Argus,"A Quiet Day", 26 April 1933, p. 12
5. ^ The Argus,"League Sub-districts", 28 August 1936, p. 15

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Name	Harris, Don
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Date of birth	27 June 1905
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