Bruce Andrew
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| Full name | Cyril Bruce Andrew | ||
| Date of birth | 28 February 1908 | ||
| Date of death | 6 June 1996 (aged 88) | ||
| Original team(s) | Abbotsford | ||
| Height | 174 cm (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Weight | 69 kg (152 lb) | ||
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| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1928–1934 | Collingwood | 67 (11) | |
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1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1934.
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Cyril Bruce Andrew (28 February 1908 – 6 June 1996) was an Australian rules footballer, who played for Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) before becoming a football administrator and television commentator.
He was famous for his immaculate hairstyle, with its signature centre-parting: "[his] hair was parted so emphatically down the centre that it was claimed he used a theodolite" (Ross, 1996, p220).
His services to the VFL were honoured by the awarding of VFL Life Membership, and his subsequent induction into the Australian Football Hall of Fame.
Bruce Andrew was light framed wingman, and the 321st player to play for Collingwood's senior team. He was considered to be one of the fastest wingmen in the competition, and had good all round skills, although he was rather injury prone. He played his first senior game for Collingwood, on the wing, against Fitzroy in round 13 of the 1928 season on 14 July 1928, having been promoted from the Seconds to replace an out of form Jack Beveridge; the match report in The Argus noted that "the new man, Andrew, from the second eighteen, fully justified his inclusion".
He played from 1928 to 1932; and, then, as Club Vice-President, he returned to the football field at the end of the 1934, playing 4 games because the team was depleted due to injuries to the regular 1934 players. He played a total of 62 senior games in his VFL career.
He was a member of the 1928 Collingwood premiership team; he played on Stan Judkins and received six free kicks. In October 1928, after the 1928 season had finished, he badly damaged his neck whilst bathing at Mornington. He dived too deeply, and struck his head on the bottom. The injury was serious enough for the doctor who examined him at Mornington, to have him taken immediately by ambulance from Mornington to St Vincent's Hospital at Fitzroy.
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