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Noel Price (footballer)

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Noel Price
Personal information
Full name Noel John Price
Date of birth 27 December 1917
Place of birth Yarragon, Victoria
Date of death 17 July 1984(1984-07-17) (aged 66)
Place of death Dandenong, Victoria
Original team(s) Warragul
Height 179 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 78 kg (172 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1939–1942, 1944-1947 Fitzroy 104 (98)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1947.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Noel John Price (27 December 1917 – 17 July 1984)[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Family

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The fourth and youngest child of Richmond footballer Joseph Allister Price (1886-1985), and Ellen May Price (1886-1973), née Horrocks, Noel John Price was born at Yarragon, Victoria on 27 December 1917.

He married Jean Caldwell Yemm (1913-2000) in 1942.

Football

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Recruited from Warragul,[2] he wore the number 22 and was a half forward flanker.

Military service

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Price's Fitzroy career was interrupted by his service in the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II.[3]

Notes

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  1. ^ "Noel Price - Player Bio". Australian Football. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
  2. ^ V.F.L. Final Lists, The Age, (Monday, 17 April 1939), p.14.
  3. ^ Nominal Roll.

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