Donald McKenzie Don was an Australian rules footballer who played in the Victorian Football League between 1917 and 1928 for the Richmond Football Club.
10 Facts About Donald Don
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Donald Don played in both the 1920 and 1921 Richmond premiership teams.
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The seventh, and last child of Collingwood-born Robert Balfour Don, and Tasmanian Johanna Mary Frances "Annie" Don, born Guppy, who along with a number of her siblings later assumed the family name James, Donald McKenzie Don was born at Collingwood, Victoria, on 17 August 1900.
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Donald Don married Matilda Maud Goodfellow, at St Michael's Church of England, at Prince's Hill, on 30 June 1925.
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Donald Don played at full-back for Victoria in the 13 August 1927 Carnival match against South Australia; and he was the full-back of the representative VFL side that played against a combined Bendigo League team, at Bendigo, on 25 August 1928.
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Donald Don played 10 Finals games, including four Grand Finals:.
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Reid was disqualified for three games for charging Clover, and was exonerated of the offence of charging Duncan; to the astonishment of many, Duncan was found not guilty of all three charges; in contrast Donald Don was found to be guilty of charging Chandler, and "in view of the fact that he had been previously disqualified [the Tribunal determined that] he would have to stand down for the rest of the season".
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Donald Don wrote that, in his view, and in relation to the VFL's treatment of both Maxfield and Don, it certainly was Richmond's "bad luck" to have had these "two debatable decisions so close together".
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Donald Don was awarded Life Membership of the Richmond Football Club in 1926.
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Donald Don died at Fairfield, Victoria, on 31 May 1982.