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    Angus Abbey    

Number:

    Footscray

Western Bulldogs

Red white and Blue

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Birthday:

   

Period on list:

  1949 to 1954

Senior Games:

  79

Goals:

  0

Disposals:

   

Recruited From:

   Footscray Waratahs
Honours:  

Premiership team 1954 (twentieth man). Five other finals.
     His father-in-law Len Johnsson played for Footscray and may have been a member of the 1923 Footscray Victorian VFA Champion side that beat VFL side Essendon.  

Footscray

   His son Ross Abbey also played between 1971 and 1981.  
Western Bulldogs      
    Angus didn't take up playing football until he was 21 years old, the only experience he had was kick-to-kick in the local streets in Footscray.  
       
     He played numerous games in the reserves before he cracked it for a senior game on the Half-back flank while Charlie Sutton was in the State side. He became part of the impassables backline of Charlie Sutton, Wally Donald, Jim Gallagher and Alan Martin. Didn't get a run on Grand Final day.  
       
     The man is a saint. Angus Abbey with his son Ross.  
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