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Damian Houlihan
Personal information
Full name Damian Houlihan
Date of birth (1975-07-30) 30 July 1975 (age 48)
Place of birth Wahgunyah, Victoria
Original team(s) Wahgunyah, Corowa-Rutherglen
Draft 15th, 1992 AFL draft
Height 188 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight 93 kg (205 lb)
Position(s) Forward
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1994 Collingwood 11 (6)
1998 North Melbourne 00 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1998.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Damian Houlihan (born 30 July 1975) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Houlihan was the first of a set of four brothers to be drafted to the AFL. His younger brothers Adam and Ryan also became league footballers and another brother Josh was briefly on St Kilda's list.

A forward, he was picked up by Collingwood with the 15th selection of the

first three kicks in league football, against Geelong at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.[1] In his fifth AFL game, against Adelaide, he was awarded three Brownlow Medal votes, despite having just 12 disposals.[1] He missed three matches mid season after being suspended for striking Richmond player Chris Naish. By the end of the year he had played 11 games and a back injury would ensure he never made it into the park in 1995.[2]

After spending the 1997 season with

Goulburn Valley Football League, Houlihan was selected by North Melbourne in the AFL pre-season draft.[3]
North Melbourne made their second grand final in three years in 1998 and Houlihan wasn't able to break into the seniors.

Delisted by North Melbourne, he went on to have a long career in country football. His greatest performance came in the 2000

Ovens & Murray Football League (OMFL) Grand Final, playing as an assistant coach for his original club Corowa-Rutherglen, when he kicked ten goals. This broke the previous record for an OMFL grand final, which was nine goals by Albury's Doug Strang, and also helped Corowa-Rutherglen to a 108-point win, another league record.[4] Houlihan, who also played at East Burwood and Gisborne, joined Sunbury in 2007. He then played for Keilor
in 2008 and was a member of their premiership team that year, again putting in a strong grand final performance. He returned to Sunbury in 2009 and then finished his career with a season at North Bendigo in 2010.

References

  1. ^ a b AFL Tables: Damian Houlihan
  2. The Sunday Age, "The Houliclan" Archived 6 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
    , 6 May 2001, Linda Pearce.
  3. ISBN 978-1-920910-78-5
    .
  4. ^ "Australian Football - Corowa Rutherglen Football Club - Info". Australian Football.
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