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Australian rules footballer
| Greg Whittlesea | |||
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| Personal information | |||
| Date of birth | (1963-07-23) 23 July 1963 (age 61) | ||
| Draft | No. 56, 1986 national draft | ||
| Height | 183 cm (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Weight | 86 kg (190 lb) | ||
| Playing career | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1981–1990 | Sturt | 234 (88) | |
| 1991 | Hawthorn | 004 0(0) | |
| 1993–1994 | Glenelg | 017 0(1) | |
| Total | 255 (89) | ||
| Representative team honours | |||
| Years | Team | Games (Goals) | |
| South Australia | |||
| Career highlights | |||
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| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
Gregory Whittlesea (born 23 July 1963) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Australian Football League (AFL) and with Sturt and Glenelg in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) during the 1980s and 1990s.
Whittlesea captained Sturt from 1987 to 1990 and won the Magarey Medal in 1988. He won successive best and fairest awards in 1987 and 1988. At the 1988 Adelaide Bicentennial Carnival he represented South Australia and earned All-Australian selection. In 1991 he was recruited by Hawthorn, but managed only four games.
He retired from football in 2004 having played 168 games for Yankalilla in the Great Southern Football League in South Australia.
External links
- Greg Whittlesea's playing statistics from AFL Tables
- Greg Whittlesea at AustralianFootball.com
| Magarey Medal winners | |
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| The Magarey Medal has been awarded since 1898 to the "best and most brilliant" player in the South Australian National Football League and its various incarnations. |
| Captains of the Sturt Football Club | |
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| P. T. Morton Medal • Sturt Football Club best and fairest winners | |
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| 1988 All-Australian team · Adelaide Bicentennial Carnival | |
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| New South Wales | |
| Northern Territory | |
| South Australia |
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| Victoria | |
| Western Australia | |
| ← 1987 1991 → | |
| South Australian team – 1983 Interstate Championships | |
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| South Australia 26.16 (172) defeated Victoria 17.14 (116), at Football Park, 16 May 1983 Western Australia 24.14 (134) defeated South Australia 16.14 (110), at Subiaco Oval, 4 June 1983 | |
| Both games | |
| State of Origin vs. Victoria | |
| State Game vs. Western Australia |
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| Coach: Hammond | |
| South Australian team – 1988 Bicentennial State of Origin Carnival | |
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| Both games | |
| vs. New South Wales | |
| vs. Victoria (final) | |
| Coach: Cornes | |
| South Australian team – 1989 State of Origin | |
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| Coach: Cahill |
| 1990 SANFL West-End All-Stars Challenge - Country v City | |
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| The Advertiser Country All-Stars 23.15 (153) d The News City All-Stars 14.28 (112) at Football Park, 21 May 1990 | |
| The Advertiser Country All-Stars | |
| The News City All-Stars | |
| Fos Williams Medal: Andrew Jarman | |
| 1986 VFL national draft | |
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