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Ken Grimley - Wikipedia

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Ken Grimley
Personal information
Full name	Ken Grimley
Date of birth	(1936-02-07)7 February 1936
Original team(s)	Wilston Grange
Height	189 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	80 kg (176 lb)
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1957	Fitzroy	9 (16)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 1957.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Ken Grimley (born 7 February 1936) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Grimley was a rugby league full-back while growing up in Brisbane and only took up Australian football after leaving school. He started out in the Wilston Grange junior team but soon broke into the seniors and in 1955 played in the club's first ever QANFL premiership.^[1] The following year he was the league's top goal-kicker with over 100 goals.

He spent just one season at Fitzroy, having been invited to the club by officials he met during an exhibition game in Brisbane. In just his second appearance, but first full game, Grimley kicked six goals from full-forward against Geelong at Kardinia Park.^[2]^[3]

After he returned to Wilston Grange in 1958 he is credited as having convinced the club to adopt a Gorilla as their logo, which Fitzroy had changed from the previous year. Grimley, who also played as a ruckman, switched to Coorparoo in 1959 and played grand finals in his first six seasons at the club. He was the runner-up in the 1961 Grogan Medal but won it in 1964. The early 1960s also saw him play many of his 22 interstate appearances for Queensland and the state was undefeated under his captaincy in 1963 and 1964.

A son, Brett Grimley, also played with Fitzroy, to create the first instance of a Queensland father and son combination playing in the VFL.^[4]

In 2003, Grimley was named as the ruckman in the official "Queensland Team of the Century", next to rovers Michael Voss and Jason Akermanis.

References

^ The Age, "We Stole Him from Rugby", 12 July 1957. p. 1
^ "Ken Grimley". AFL Tables.
^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-920910-78-5.
^ "Ken Grimley - Player Bio". Australian Football. Retrieved 14 August 2015.

Grogan Medal winners

1927: Brown
1928: Chand
1929: unknown
1930: Green
1934: Davies
1935: Davies
1937: Stream
1938: Davies
1939: Vidgen
1940: Pittard
1941: Nielson
1945: Anders
1946: Pittard
1947: Pittard/Willets
1948: Calder
1949: Parton
1950: Calder/Stevens
1951: Shorten
1952: Howell
1953: McGuinness
1954: McGuinness
1955: Maguire
1956: Pelly
1957: Farnsworth
1958: Stewart
1959: Golding
1960: Conlan/Dihm
1961: Leach
1962: Leach
1963: Gould
1964: Grimley
1965: Gould
1966: Wah Hing
1967: Hull
1968: Appleyard
1969: Garcia/Johnston/Weller
1970: K. Mills
1971: Backwell
1972: Clarke
1973: Smith
1974: Ebert
1975: Backwell
1976: Clarke
1977: P. Taylor
1978: Ives
1979: Smith
1980: Karklis
1981: Hollick
1982: Blair
1983: Guy/Pierce
1984: McMullen
1985: Z. Taylor
1986: McMullen/Packham
1987: Simmonds
1988: Brittain
1989: Bourke
1990: Cotter
1991: Buchanan
1992: Chapman/Crutchfield/O'Sullivan
1993: Bourke/Cotter/Warren
1994: Howe
1995: Bain
1996: Lambert
1997: Brennan
1998: Edwards
1999: Bain/Jones
2000: Dickfos
2001: O'Brien
2002: Round
2003: Gough
2004: Stinear
2005: Round
2006: Payne
2007: Featherstone
2008: Kinch
2009: Gilliland
2010: Wise
2011: Ilett/Payne
2012: Davey/Pope/Salter
2013: Kiel
2014: Davey
2015: Carseldine
2016: Derrick
2017: Burge/W. Mills
2018: Erickson
2019: Neate
2020: Payne
2021: Moncrieff
2022: Banks-Smith
2023: Boakye
2024: Hickey

The Grogan Medal has been awarded most years since 1927, and every year since 1945, to the best and fairest player in the Queensland Australian Football League and, historically, other high-level Queensland football competitions. It was known as the De Little Medal until 1946.

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