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Emma Quayle | November 23, 2009
Daniel Talia with his grandfather, Harvey Stevens, who played in Footscray’s 1954 premiership team. At Auskick,Talia decided he liked Carlton’s juper. ‘‘I’m the turncoat,” he says, “but I like the Bulldogs, too.’’
N 1948, Harvey Stevens was 18, and playing football for Reservoir. One day, while working in a northern suburbs butcher store, one of Collingwood's financial backers wandered in and asked if he'd like a run with the team.
Stevens trained twice at Victoria Park, played that weekend, played three more games for the season and made the Victorian state side the following year.
At the end of 1952, sensing the Magpies wanted him to ''buzz off'', Stevens listened to offers from Hawthorn, Fitzroy, Footscray and one or two other teams. The Bulldogs offered to help him pay off a new Holden, and so the deal was done. In 1954, he played in the club's first and only premiership team.
There was no draft camp in his day. There was no draft. Stevens didn't have his running vertical leap measured, he didn't fill out any psychological profiles and he never feared being forced into a new state or city.
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Daniel Talia with his grandfather, Harvey Stevens, who played in Footscray’s 1954 premiership team. At Auskick,Talia decided he liked Carlton’s juper. ‘‘I’m the turncoat,” he says, “but I like the Bulldogs, too.’’
N 1948, Harvey Stevens was 18, and playing football for Reservoir. One day, while working in a northern suburbs butcher store, one of Collingwood's financial backers wandered in and asked if he'd like a run with the team.
Stevens trained twice at Victoria Park, played that weekend, played three more games for the season and made the Victorian state side the following year.
At the end of 1952, sensing the Magpies wanted him to ''buzz off'', Stevens listened to offers from Hawthorn, Fitzroy, Footscray and one or two other teams. The Bulldogs offered to help him pay off a new Holden, and so the deal was done. In 1954, he played in the club's first and only premiership team.
There was no draft camp in his day. There was no draft. Stevens didn't have his running vertical leap measured, he didn't fill out any psychological profiles and he never feared being forced into a new state or city.
Article in full..
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