Full name Maurice John Fowler Name Maurie Fowler 1966 Carlton | Years Club Height/Weight 180 cm / 72 kg | |
Date of birth (1944-08-10) 10 August 1944 (age 71) | ||
Original team Kyabram Football Club | ||
Maurice John Fowler (born 10 August 1944, in Geelong) was a former Australian rules footballer, after making the senior list of the Carlton Football Club for 5 years and finally moving to Melbourne from Kyabram (where he played 120 games) in 1966 and played 8 senior games.
In 1967 he was cleared to Footscray but was later being transferred to Williamstown in the VFA without playing a senior game for Footscray. He then returned to the Goulburn Valley Football League, playing one season with Mooroopna and one season with Kyabram, before accepting the position as playing coach of the Palm Beach Currumbin Football Club on the Queensland Gold Coast in 1970.
He coached Palm Beach Currumbin to 2 premierships between 1970 & 1974 before returning to Victoria as playing coach of the Robinvale Football Club in the Sunraysia Football League.
After only 1 season at Robinvale where the club finished third, Fowler was appointed playing coach of the Hay (NSW) Football Club in the Mid Murray Football League. Within six months Fowler was appointed General Manager of the Hay Services Club.
Fowler retired as a player in 1977 but continued to coach Hay before accepting the position of General Manager of the Cobram-Barooga Golf Club on the NSW – Victorian border. During his time at Cobram Fowler returned to coaching in 1982 & 1983, taking Cobram into their first Murray League Grand Final appearance in 9 years.