Michael John Twomey (25 September 1931 – 14 December 2015) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

At 185 centimetres (6 ft 1 in) in height, Collingwood's Mick Twomey was taller than his brothers Bill and Pat. Recruited from Yarra Valley,[1] he played most of his 157 VFL games between 1951 and 1961 as a ruckman. In fact he was short for a ruckman; but he had remarkable spring, and newspapers often carried photos of him seeming to soar over opponents.[2] In the 1958 VFL Grand Final, for instance, the highlights footage from Channel 7 shows him contesting ruck hit-outs and marks with opposing ruckmen who were 11 cm and 13 cm taller.[3]

Over the course of his 10-year career Twomey was a member of five Collingwood Grand Final teams, enjoying premiership success in 1953 and 1958. He died in 2015.[4]

References

  1. ^ Fourth Twomey Gets Permit for Collingwood, The Age, (Thursday, 21 April 1949), p.12.
  2. ^ See for instance the photo in his obituary in the Melbourne Age. See also the comments in his profile at AustralianFootball.com
  3. ^ See the players' height statistics from this game for the Melbourne ruckmen Dick Fenton-Smith and Bob Johnson.
  4. ^ "Collingwood premiership player Mick Twomey dies at 84". The Age. 16 December 2015. Retrieved 16 December 2015.


Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Twomey
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