Joe Bailey (Australian footballer)

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Joe Bailey
Personal information
Full name Joseph Leslie Bailey
Date of birth (1921-10-02)2 October 1921
Place of birth Ceres, Victoria
Date of death 24 November 1996(1996-11-24) (aged 75)
Place of death Geelong, Victoria
Original team(s) Newtown & Chilwell
Height 173 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Weight 70 kg (154 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1941, 1946–49 Geelong 31 (2)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1949.

Joseph Leslie Bailey (2 October 1921 – 24 November 1996) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL). [1]

Personal life

Bailey served as a corporal in the Australian Army during the Second World War.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. ^ "World War Two Service". Australian Government – Department of Veteran's Affairs. Retrieved 15 January 2021.

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