Adrian Gallagher

Athlete

1946 –

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Who is Adrian Gallagher?

Adrian Lindsay Gallagher is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League.

He was also an outstanding cricketer in his youth and received many offers to play in England, but preferred to stay in Melbourne over the Australian winter and play football for Carlton.

Gallagher made his debut for the Carlton Football Club in Round 6, 1964. He was a tenacious, and courageous left-footer; and he was renowned for fearlessly burrowing into dense packs and coming out with the ball. He left the Blues and moved to Footscray at the end of the 1972 season.

He was widely known as "Gags" and also went by the nickname "Golly" before he started to lose his mop of curly hair

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Born
May 12, 1946

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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