Mick Dowdle

Mick Dowdle
Personal information
Full name Mick Dowdle
Date of birth (1947-07-03) 3 July 1947 (age 77)
Original team(s) Jerilderie
Height 173 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Weight 76 kg (168 lb)
Position(s) Rover
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1964–71 North Melbourne 98 (89)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1971.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Mick Dowdle (born 3 July 1947) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). [1]

Dowdle played in Jerilderie's 1963 Coreen & District Football League premiership and also won the 1963 Coreen & DFL best and fairest award, the Archie Dennis Medal and is the youngest ever winner of this award, as a 16 year old.[2]

Dowdle made his senior VFL debut against Fitzoy in round 17, in August 1964 at the Arden Street Oval, North Melbourne, as a 17 year old.


Notes

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  1. ^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 236. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. ^ "Archie Denis Medalists (page 18)" (PDF). NSW Football History. Coreen & DFL. p. 18. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
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