Grew up in Coburg, where he was coached as a schoolboy by the great John Kennedy. Moved to Queensland to play 251 games with Wilston-Grange from the late 1960s in a career interrupted only by a short stint as a premiership captain-coach in the Riverina.Was a dominant centre half forward/ruckman, with long arms, who regularly took freakish marks.
Was recruited by Hawthorn at the same time as Peter Hudson but chose to return ‘home’ and represented Queensland seven times in the late 1960s and ‘70s.