Roy Long
Hawthorn
AFL career
2 games0 goals
- Debut
- R9 1940 v GEE22 June 1940
- Most recent
- R10 1940 v CAR29 June 1940
Stats
Bio
A recruit from the Launceston Football Club in Tasmania, Roy Long was a talented all-round athlete who arrived at Hawthorn with a background in competitive boxing and tennis. Standing 183cm, he possessed the height of a key position player for the era and broke into the senior lineup midway through the 1940 season, debuting in a loss to Geelong. His VFL career was abruptly cut short by the realities of World War II; immediately following his second game—a victory over Carlton at Princes Park on June 29—Long enlisted in the Australian Army’s 2/40th Battalion on July 1. He served for the duration of the war and never returned to VFL football, leaving a brief two-game legacy that stands as a testament to the disruption faced by the playing cohort of the 1940s.
Profile
- Born
- 04 Sept 1914
- Died
- 04 Apr 1985 (aged 70y 212d)
- Birthplace
- Launceston, TAS
- Deathplace
- Kew, VIC
- Height
- 183 cm
- Weight
- 80 kg
Teams
Bio
1 revisionA recruit from the Launceston Football Club in Tasmania, Roy Long was a talented all-round athlete who arrived at Hawthorn with a background in competitive boxing and tennis. Standing 183cm, he possessed the height of a key position player for the era and broke into the senior lineup midway through the 1940 season, debuting in a loss to Geelong. His VFL career was abruptly cut short by the realities of World War II; immediately following his second game—a victory over Carlton at Princes Park on June 29—Long enlisted in the Australian Army’s 2/40th Battalion on July 1. He served for the duration of the war and never returned to VFL football, leaving a brief two-game legacy that stands as a testament to the disruption faced by the playing cohort of the 1940s.