Lou Richards

Lewis Thomas Charles "Lou" Richards (15 March 1923 – 8 May 2017) was an Australian rules footballer. He played 250 games for the Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1941 and 1955.  e captained the team from 1952 to 1955, including a premiership win in 1953.Scott Palmer, 'Top 10 characters of the '70s'  (4 Jul 2007), accessed on 9 Sep 2007 He later became a hotel manager and a highly well known sports journalist. He was born in Collingwood, Victoria.

Richards was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1981, received an Australian Sports Medal in 2000, and was awarded a Centenary Medal in 2001.

On 8 May 2017, Richards died at his nursing home in the Melbourne suburb of Windsor from dementia-related complications at the age of 94.

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