Australian Football

Geoffrey Long gave excellent service to City/City-South over 224 senior games, winning the club’s best and fairest award in 1953. He also represented the NTFA in 29 intrastate representative games, and played a dozen times for Tasmania. His state performances were almost invariably of the highest order, and he won the Lefroy Medal for best Tasmanian player for the season in 1955, and an All Australian blazer after the following year’s Perth carnival. Long also represented Tasmania at the 1953 and 1958 carnivals in Adelaide and Melbourne respectively. In 2005 he was inducted as an inaugural legend into Tasmanian Football’s official Hall of Fame.

Author - John Devaney