Des Fothergill

Des Fothergill
Fothergill in the late 1930s
Personal information
Full name	Desmond Hugh Fothergill
Date of birth	(1920-07-15)15 July 1920
Place of birth	Northcote, Victoria, Australia
Date of death	16 March 1996(1996-03-16) (aged 75)
Place of death	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Original team(s)	Collingwood Tech
Height	178 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	88 kg (13 st 12 lb)
Position(s)	half-forward, rover
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1937–1940, 1945–1947	Collingwood	111 (337)
Representative team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
	Victoria	2 (4)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1947.
Career highlights
Brownlow Medallist: 1940 (equal) VFL Leading Goalkicker 1946 Recorder Cup (Williamstown): 1941 Collingwood best and fairest 1937, 1938, 1940 Collingwood leading goalkicker 1940, 1945, 1946 Collingwood Team of the Century (half-forward flank) Collingwood Football Club Hall of Fame
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Desmond Hugh Fothergill (15 July 1920 – 16 March 1996) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and for Williamstown Football Club in the Victorian Football Association (VFA). He was also a noted cricketer, representing Victoria in the Sheffield Shield.

In a short but brilliant football career interrupted by World War II and ended by injury, Fothergill was recognized as one of the finest small players of his era, winning almost every available accolade at both club and league level.