years death_date clubs statsend name originalteam birth_date article_title heightweight
1940-1943 22 november 1993 richmond 1943 raymond steele university blacks 19 may 1917 raymond steele
 183cm / 81.5 kg
raymond steele

raymond ` ray ' steele -lrb- 19 may 1917 -- 22 november 1993 , educated at scotch college , melbourne -rrb- was an australian rules footballer who played in the vfl from 1940 to 1943 for the richmond football club .
steele also played district cricket for university and hawthorn-east melbourne between 1937 and 1949 , later serving as president of the victorian cricket association for 19 years and treasurer of the australian cricket board for 16 years .
steele was the manager of the australian cricket team on its 1972 tour of england .
steele was awarded the order of the british empire , o.b.e. for services to cricket .
