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Full name
  
Barrie Somerville

1958
  
North Melbourne

Years
  
Club


Height/Weight
  
174 cm / 63 kg

Original team(s)
  
Lucknow

Name
  
Barrie Somerville

Date of birth
  
(1941-03-05) 5 March 1941 (age 74)

Barrie Somerville (born 5 March 1941) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Somerville was only 17 when he played his three games of VFL football. He had been recruited from Lucknow in the Bairnsdale District FL after he kicked 119 goals in the 1957 season.

City life didn't agree with him and he eventually returned to Lucknow. In 1964 and 1965 he again topped the Bairnsdale DFL goalkicking for Lucknow.

References

Barrie Somerville Wikipedia