fullname years statsend name coachyears originalteam birth_date sooteams article_title coachclubs heightweight
kevin morris 1971-76 1991 kevin morris 1988-91 salesian college / waverley -lrb- vfa -rrb- 20 august 1951 victoria kevin morris -lrb- australian footballer -rrb-
 west adelaide -lrb- sanfl -rrb- 180 cm / 84 kg
kevin morris -lrb- australian footballer -rrb-

kevin morris is a former australian rules football player who played in the victorian football league -lrb- vfl -rrb- between 1971 and 1976 for the richmond football club and then from 1977 until 1981 for the collingwood football club .
he commenced his coaching career as captain/coach of victorian football association -lrb- vfa -rrb- club werribee in 1982 then went back to the vfl as captain/coach of the reserve side from 1983 to 1985 , winning the premiership in his first season .
after retiring from playing , morris was appointed coach of west adelaide in the south australian national football league -lrb- sanfl -rrb- in 1988 and remained in adelaide until 1991 .
in his four years with the bloods morris took them to 8th in ' 88 , 7th in '89 and 6th in '90 before leading the club to the 1991 sanfl grand final where they lost to north adelaide 21.22 -lrb- 146 -rrb- to 11.7 -lrb- 73 -rrb- in the most spiteful sanfl grand final in the modern era with at least 4 all-in brawls marring what was a class effort by the roosters over a west adelaide team that had won 12 of its previous 14 games .
in morris 's west adelaide team in 1991 were then adelaide crows afl players mark mickan , bruce lindner , paul patterson and shaun rehn -lrb- who missed the final series through injury -rrb- as well as future afl star full-forward tony modra along with former vfl players darren carlson , peter banfield , matthew simpson and michael kennedy .
in the weeks after the bloods grand final loss , morris was controversially sacked as bloods coach and in 1992 he returned to essendon , firstly in recruiting then as an assistant-coach .
he coached the richmond reserves side in 1995 then was an assistant-coach in 1996 .
most recently he worked as an assistant-coach at .
kevin morris 's son steven is currently playing for richmond , he was traded to the tigers after being pre-listed by the new greater western sydney football club prior to the 2011 afl draft from west adelaide where he won the clubs best & fairest in 2011 .
