Lou Richards

Lou Richards
Lou Richards
Personal information
Full name	Lewis Thomas Charles Richards
Nickname(s)	Lou, Louie the Lip
Date of birth	15 March 1923
Place of birth	Collingwood, Victoria , Australia
Date of death	8 May 2017 (aged 94)
Place of death	Windsor, Victoria , Australia
Original team	Abbotsford
Career highlights
	Template:AFL Col premiership captain 1953 ; All-Australian Team of the Year 1947, 1948 ; Template:AFL Col leading goalkicker 1944, 1948, 1950 ; Template:AFL Col captain 1952?1955 ; Australian Football Hall of Fame , inducted 1996 ; Template:AFL Col Hall of Fame, inducted 2004 ;

Lewis Thomas Charles " Lou " Richards (15 March 1923 ? 8 May 2017) was an Australian rules footballer. He played 250 games for the Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1941 and 1955. e captained the team from 1952 to 1955, including a premiership win in 1953. ^[1] He later became a hotel manager and a highly well known sports journalist. ^[2] He was born in Collingwood, Victoria .

Richards was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1981, received an Australian Sports Medal in 2000, and was awarded a Centenary Medal in 2001. ^[3]

On 8 May 2017, Richards died at his nursing home in the Melbourne suburb of Windsor from dementia -related complications at the age of 94. ^[4]^[5]

References [ change | change source ]

↑ Scott Palmer, 'Top 10 characters of the '70s' Archived 2011-05-24 at the Wayback Machine (4 Jul 2007), accessed on 9 Sep 2007
↑ "Lou Richards OBE" . Sport Australia Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 16 December 2013 . Retrieved 16 December 2013 .
↑ "Richards, Lewis Charles Thomas, MBE" . It's an Honour. Archived from the original on 16 December 2013 . Retrieved 16 December 2013 .
↑ The Age (8 May 2017). "Collingwood legend Lou Richards dies" . Retrieved 8 May 2017 .
↑ "Lou Richards dead: Collingwood great and famous broadcaster passes away at age 94" . Fox Sports . 8 May 2017 . Retrieved 8 May 2017 .

Other websites [ change | change source ]

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[Scotty-1] Scott Palmer, 'Top 10 characters of the '70s' Archived 2011-05-24 at the Wayback Machine (4 Jul 2007), accessed on 9 Sep 2007

[2] "Lou Richards OBE" . Sport Australia Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 16 December 2013 . Retrieved 16 December 2013 .

[mbe-3] "Richards, Lewis Charles Thomas, MBE" . It's an Honour. Archived from the original on 16 December 2013 . Retrieved 16 December 2013 .

[4] The Age (8 May 2017). "Collingwood legend Lou Richards dies" . Retrieved 8 May 2017 .

[foxsports-5] "Lou Richards dead: Collingwood great and famous broadcaster passes away at age 94" . Fox Sports . 8 May 2017 . Retrieved 8 May 2017 .

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