Australian rules footballer
Australian rules footballer
Colin Rice Full name
Colin Walter Rice Date of birth
(1938-07-16 ) 16 July 1938 (age 86) Original team(s)
Swan Hill Height
170 cm (5 ft 7 in) Weight
71 kg (157 lb) Years
Club
Games (Goals) 1957–1963
Geelong
97 (87)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1963.
Sources: AFL Tables , AustralianFootball.com
Colin Walter Rice (born 16 July 1938) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Rice made his debut for Geelong in 1957 and was capable of playing in both the back pocket and as a rover. He won the Carji Greeves Medal for Geelong's best and fairest player in 1959 and captained the club for part of 1960. Rice became a premiership player with his last game in the league, the 1963 grand final.
The following season he moved to Glenelg in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and was their Club Champion in his debut season.
He later played with the South Bendigo Football Club and won a Michelsen Medal in 1968.
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Pre-VFA
1859: Mason/Fraser/Rennie
1860: Mason/Wills
1861: Rennie/Tait
1862: Greenfield/Harrison /Nicholls
1863–1865: Nichols
1866: Groom
1867: Robertson/Wills /Bowden
1868: Wills /Harrison /Bowden
1869–1870: Arthur
1871: Dickenson/Bowden
1872: Wills /Arthur
1873: Wills
1874: Down
1875: Day
1876: Thomas
VFA VFL/AFL AFL Women's