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  • 3 weeks ago | richmondfc.com.au | Rhett Bartlett |Richmond Historian

    Frank Dunin, the CSIRO scientist who was Richmond’s key position player in the 1950s, and member of the demonstration football match at the Melbourne Olympics, has died. Dunin died May 13th 2025, his son Ben told Rhett Bartlett. In 1953 and 1955-1959, the right-footer played 69 senior games as a centre-half-forward, centre half-back and ruckman, kicking 30 goals. He also played 13 Reserves games and kicked nine goals.

  • 1 month ago | richmondfc.com.au | Rhett Bartlett |Richmond Historian

    Peter Nixon AO, the universally admired politician who, as a staunch supporter of the Richmond Football Club, was Club Patron for over 40 years, has died. Mr Nixon died May 1st 2025, aged 97. Whilst serving under five former Prime Ministers - Harold Holt, John McEwen, John Gorton, Billy McMahon, and Malcolm Fraser - he followed the fortunes of Tigerland from within the inner sanctum, always having the ear and respect of powerbrokers Graeme Richmond, Alan Schwab, and Ian Wilson.

  • 2 months ago | richmondfc.com.au | Rhett Bartlett |Richmond Historian

    Edo Benetti, the Italian son of a coal miner, who played nine senior games as Richmond’s full-forward in the early 1960s, has died. He was 83. Benetti died March 3, 2025, his daughter Jan advised the Richmond Former Players and Officials. His career at Tigerland spanned 1960-1962 for nine Senior games and seven goals, and 23 Reserves matches for 43 goals. In 1962 he won the Reserves goalkicking with 22.

  • Mar 7, 2025 | richmondfc.com.au | Rhett Bartlett |Richmond Historian

    Kevin Webb, Richmond’s second-oldest living footballer, who played seven games in 1949, has died. Webb died February 26, 2025, aged 96, his daughter Jenny wrote in an email to Rhett Bartlett. “He had lived a great and full life.”One of our last living players to take the field in the 1940s, Webb was recruited from Sunshine, played for the Richmond Thirds in 1947, and 21 games for the Reserves between 1947 and 1949. The Argus, May 21st 1947 detailing his clearance to Tigerland.

  • Feb 25, 2025 | richmondfc.com.au | Rhett Bartlett |Richmond Historian

    The earliest surviving complete Richmond Home and Away broadcast - Round 22, 1977 - has been discovered. The two U-Matic tapes covering Channel 7’s telecast was saved by, would you believe, a Carlton supporter named Al, who rescued them from being trashed at a storage facility back in the 1980s. They have now been digitised and uploaded to Rhett Bartlett’s YouTube channel.

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