| Brian Lowe | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||
| Date of birth | (1939-06-25)25 June 1939 | ||
| Date of death | 4 July 2024(2024-07-04) (aged 85) | ||
| Place of death | Queensland, Australia | ||
| Original team(s) | City-South | ||
| Height | 189 cm (6 ft 2 in) | ||
| Weight | 83 kg (183 lb) | ||
| Position(s) | Ruckman | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1961–63 | Geelong | 36 (1) | |
| Representative team honours | |||
| Years | Team | Games (Goals) | |
| 1964–68 | Tasmania | 8 (0) | |
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1963. | |||
| Career highlights | |||
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| Sources:AFL Tables,AustralianFootball.com | |||
Brian Lowe (25 June 1939 – 4 July 2024) was anAustralian rules footballer who played in Tasmania and Victoria from the late 1950s until the late 1970s.[1]
He was inducted into theTasmanian Football Hall of Fame in 2005.
Lowe started his career with Rossarden, before being recruited toNorthern Tasmanian Football Association (NTFA) clubCity-South in 1957.[2] In four seasons with the club, he would play in back-to-back premierships in 1959 and 1960, winning the club's best and fairest award in both seasons.[2] City-South would also win their fifthTasmanian State Premiership in 1960 with Lowe in the team.
A promisingruckman, Lowe was recruited byGeelong ahead of the1961 VFL season. He played 36 matches with Geelong in theVictorian Football League (VFL) during the early 1960s whileBob Davis was coach and were starting to develop into a strong side. A member of Geelong's1961 'night premiership' team, Lowe played in the drawn1962 VFL Preliminary Final againstCarlton as well as the narrow loss in the replay the following weekend. Geelong again made the finals again in1963 but Lowe, despite participating in their semi-final defeat ofHawthorn Football Club which booked a place in theGrand Final, was not selected in the premiership decider, which they won. He would be instead be named best on ground in the club's 1963 VFL Reserves premiership victory againstSt Kilda.[2][1]
Upon leaving Geelong, Lowe returned to becomeplayer-coach of Tasmanian clubCooee in 1964, winning back-to-backNorth West Football Union premierships with the club in 1964 and 1965,[3] also leading Cooee to their first Tasmanian State Premiership victory in 1964.[2] While at Cooee, he would represent Tasmania as vice-captain in the1966 Hobart Carnival.[1]
He would later move to theEast Launceston Football Club in 1967, winning another NTFA premiership that season. He would leave East Launceston at the end of the 1971 season, spending several seasons atWestbury, before announcing his retirement as player-coach while back at East Launceston in 1978.[1]
After relocating to Queensland in 1979, he came out of retirement to leadSouthport to the 1979Gold Coast premiership, before permanently retiring from football at age 40.[2][1]
Lowe died after a battle withParkinson's disease on 4 July 2024, at the age of 85.[4]
His original club,City-South, placed him in theback pocket of their official 'Team of the Century'.[2]
Lowe was inducted into theTasmanian Football Hall of Fame in 2005.