Dick O'Bree
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| Dick O'Bree | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Richard John O'Bree | ||
| Date of birth | 5 June 1936 | ||
| Place of birth | Lake Boga, Victoria, Australia | ||
| Date of death | 21 January 2024 (aged 87) | ||
| Original team(s) | Euroa / Lake Boga | ||
| Height | 188 cm (6 ft 2 in) | ||
| Weight | 90 kg (198 lb) | ||
| Position(s) | Full-Forward | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1956–57 | Collingwood | 4 (5) | |
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1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1957. | |||
| Career highlights | |||
| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
Richard John O'Bree (5 June 1936 – 21 January 2024) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1][2]
Originally from Lake Boga, O'Bree made his senior debut as a fifteen year old with his local club and as a seventeen-year-old played in a Lake Boga premiership[3] and kicked 118 goals in the 1953 home and away season with Lake Boga in the Mid Murray Football League,[4] with another 22 in the finals. In 1954 he kicked 94 goals before work took him to Euroa.
VFL career
Collingwood had attempted to lure the young Full-forward for years before O'Bree signed with them on match permits. He played the first three games in 1956 VFL season. In his third game, O'Bree started well, kicking a goal then he collided with Colin Saddington, landed awkwardly and broke his right leg in a match against Richmond at their home ground Punt Road Oval. As there were no stretchers available, O'Bree was carried from the ground on Richmond's training room door.[5]