Richie Bray
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| Richie Bray | |||
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| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Richard W. Bray | ||
| Date of death | November 2017 | ||
| Playing career | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1959, 1962-1966 | Port Adelaide | 77 (65) | |
| Career highlights | |||
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| Source: AustralianFootball.com | |||
Richard W. Bray, known as Richie Bray, was an Aboriginal Australian rules footballer who played for the Port Adelaide Football Club.
As a child, Bray was a resident of St Francis House, a home for inland Aboriginal Australian boys from 1946 to 1959 in the Adelaide suburb of Semaphore South,[1] a beachside suburb of Adelaide near Port Adelaide, South Australia.[2] There he was treated with kindness, sent to the local school, and met other future Aboriginal leaders and activists, including Gordon Briscoe, John Kundereri Moriarty, Charles Perkins, Vince Copley, Malcolm Cooper, and others.[3][4]