Max Urquhart

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Max Urquhart
Personal information
Date of birth (1942-01-07) 7 January 1942 (age 82)
Original team(s) Urana, Corowa
Height 182 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 83 kg (183 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1963–1969 Collingwood 92 (28)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1969.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Max Urquhart (born 7 January 1942) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1960s.

Urquhart, a New South Welshman, who played in the 1959 Coreen & District Football League premiership with Urana - Cullival FC,[1] having first played in the Urana seniors as a fourteen year old.[2]

Urquhart was runner up in the 1960 Coreen & District Football League best and fairest award, the Archie Dennis Medal by one vote.[3]

Urquhart then went onto the Corowa Football Club where he was recruited from and many belief he was a wet weather specialist and played mainly as a centreman or centre-half forward.

He was Collingwood's leading vote getter in the

1964 VFL Grand Final, which Collingwood lost to Melbourne
.

Urquhart played 14 games in 1966, but missed out on selection as a member of Collingwood's

1966 VFL Grand Final side that lost to St. Kilda.[4]

He later played at Wynyard Football Club and represented Tasmania at the 1972 Perth Carnival.

References

  1. ^ "Gus is truly Lion-hearted". La Trobe Express. 9 October 2020. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
  2. ^ "Max Urquhart Profile". Collingwood Forever. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
  3. ^ Dr Rodney Gillett (6 August 2020). "Behind Post Snaps Hopefield-Buraja to Victory in the 1960 Coreen & District Grand Final". NSWAustralian Football History Society. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
  4. ^ John Devaney. "Max Urquhart Profile". Australian Football. Full Points Footy Publications. Retrieved 3 October 2021.

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