Don Carmichael

Don Carmichael
Personal information
Full name Donald Cameron Carmichael[1]
Date of birth (1937-03-03)3 March 1937
Place of birth Yarrawonga, Victoria
Date of death (2020-10-08)8 October 2020
Place of death Sale, Victoria
Original team(s) Lincoln Stars
Height 180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 78 kg (172 lb)
Position(s) Half-back
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1955–57 Essendon 15 (1)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1957.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Donald Cameron Carmichael (3 March 1937 – 8 October 2020) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[2]

Carmichael won Essendon's reserves best and fairest in 1955 and he later played with St Kilda's reserves, Redan, Williamstown and Sale. Carmichael played 90 games for Williamstown from 1960-65, kicking 31 goals and played in the 1961 and 1964 VFA grand finals. He finished in third place in the Club's 1962 best and fairest award and was awarded the most serviceable player trophy in 1961.

He moved to Sale in 1966 and spent the remainder of his life there, working as a schoolteacher.

Notes

  1. ^ "Tribute: Donald Cameron Carmichael". Herald Sun.
  2. ^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 133. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.