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1 week ago | 
richmondfc.com.au | Rhett Bartlett |Richmond Historian
Len Gardner, the Richmond utility who captained the Under 19s, won a Reserves Best and Fairest, and played five senior games, has died. He was 94. Gardner died on Saturday May 17th, 2025, his son Mark told Rhett Bartlett. Born on February 16th, 1931, the passionate Tiger supporter grew up in Burnley, and worked as a truck driver for Lou Arthur, transporting the barley and malt from the wharf to the silos in Richmond.
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2 weeks ago | 
richmondfc.com.au | Rhett Bartlett |Richmond Historian
A landmark six-year research project documenting every known Richmond Under 19s player has been completed. The result is a list of 1,054 players who suited up for the Under 19s between 1946–1991. That list is available to view on the Tigerland Archive site here: https://www.tigerlandarchive.org/tiki-index.php?page=Under+19+Players.
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1 month 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.
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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.
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Mar 15, 2025 | 
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.
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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.
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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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Feb 19, 2025 | 
richmondfc.com.au | Rhett Bartlett |Richmond Historian
To celebrate the Richmond Football Club’s 140th birthday today, Graeme Charles - the great grandson of the club’s founder James Charles – visited Tigerland to be photographed with the entire playing group, and CEO Shane Dunne. It was on this date in 1885 that James Charles the Richmond Cricket Club committeeman - who worked at the Glasgow Book Warehouse - founded the footy club at the Royal Hotel on Punt Road.
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Feb 6, 2025 | 
richmondfc.com.au | Rhett Bartlett |Richmond Historian
“Tista” De Lorenzo, the rugged Italian defender, who shrugged off a residential dispute with Melbourne, to play 10 senior games for the Tigers in 1958, has died. De Lorenzo died January 7, 2025 aged 90, his grandson advised the club. Recruited from Dandenong in the VFA, De Lorenzo actually first trained at Tigerland five years earlier, in the middle of the 1953 season, as an 18-year-old.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
richmondfc.com.au | Rhett Bartlett |Richmond Historian
Ian Miles, the talented Essex Heights recruit, who played four senior games between 1971 and 1972, has died. Miles died January 9, 2025, his family announced. He was 72. Across his five years at Tigerland he captained the Richmond Fourths (1969), won their Best and Fairest that same year, played in the Under 19s 1970 premiership, and was runner-up in the 1972 Reserves Best and Fairest – all whilst still a teenager. For all his four senior games, Miles started on the interchange.
