Geoff Ainsworth
Australian Rules Footballer
1946 – 2011
Who was Geoff Ainsworth?
Geoff Ainsworth was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Originally from the University Blues, Ainsworth was used as a back pocket by Geelong over the course of his eight season career. He was a member of Geelong's losing 1967 VFL Grand Final side in his first year at the club. After missing all but one game of the 1971 season as he was traveling in Europe, Ainsworth went on to become club captain in 1973. He lost the captaincy role the following season and retired, aged only 28, at the end of the year in order to concentrate on his legal career. During his career Ainsworth had polled a total of five Brownlow Medal votes. In 1976 he was made a life member of the Geelong Football Club. Ainsworth died on 2 February 2011.
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