Des Negri
Collingwood and Richmond
AFL career
32 games2 goals
- Debut
- R4 1942 v ESS30 May 1942
- Most recent
- R16 1945 v HAW4 Aug 1945
Stats
Bio
Recruited from East Melbourne CYMS, Des Negri was a tidy ball-handler who joined his older brother Frank at Collingwood during the Second World War. A product of the prolific CBC Parade football nursery, Negri was a noted schoolboy handball champion, utilizing those skills primarily as a defender and utility across 30 games for the Magpies. He crossed to Richmond in a mid-season transfer in June 1945 but struggled to break into the senior lineup, adding just two games to his tally before a stint in the VFA with Coburg. Negri later relocated to Queensland, where he left a lasting mark as a premiership-winning captain-coach in the mining town of Mount Isa.
Profile
- Born
- 15 Nov 1923
- Died
- 07 May 2003 (aged 79y 173d)
- Deathplace
- Southport, QLD
- Height
- 178 cm
- Weight
- 76 kg
Teams
Family
- Brother:Frank Negri
Bio
1 revisionRecruited from East Melbourne CYMS, Des Negri was a tidy ball-handler who joined his older brother Frank at Collingwood during the Second World War. A product of the prolific CBC Parade football nursery, Negri was a noted schoolboy handball champion, utilizing those skills primarily as a defender and utility across 30 games for the Magpies. He crossed to Richmond in a mid-season transfer in June 1945 but struggled to break into the senior lineup, adding just two games to his tally before a stint in the VFA with Coburg. Negri later relocated to Queensland, where he left a lasting mark as a premiership-winning captain-coach in the mining town of Mount Isa.