Kevin Morris

Infobox afl player


firstname = Kevin
lastname = Morris


birthdate = Birth date and age|df=yes|1951|8|20
birthplace =
originalteam = Salesian College/Waverley (VFA)
heightweight = 180cm / 84kg
dead = alive
deathdate =
deathplace =
debutdate = 1971
debutteam = Richmond
debutopponent =
debutstadium =
playingteams = Richmond (1971-1976)

111 games, 71 goals

Collingwood (1977-1981)

71 games, 54 goals

coach = notcoach
statsend = 2006
careerhighlights =

*Richmond Premiership Player 1973, 1974
*Richmond Best and Fairest 1975
*Interstate Games:- 2

Kevin Morris is a former Australian rules football player who played in the VFL between 1971 and 1976 for the Richmond Football Club and then from 1977 until 1981 for the Collingwood Football Club.

He commenced his coaching career as Captain/Coach of VFA club Werribee in 1982 then went back to the VFL as Captain/Coach of the Reserve side for Essendon from 1983 to 1985, winning the premiership in his first season. He retired from playing and was coach of West Adelaide in the SANFL from 1988 to 1991, leading the club to the 1991 SANFL Grand Final where they lost to the North Adelaide Football Club.

In 1992 he returned to Essendon, firstly in recruiting then as an assistant-coach. He coached the Richmond Reserves side in 1995 then was an assistant-coach in 1996. Most recently he worked as an assistant-coach at St Kilda.

References

* Hogan P: "The Tigers Of Old" , Richmond FC, Melbourne 1996