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Joe Hickey
Personal information
Full name Joseph Hickey
Date of birth (1929-03-07)7 March 1929
Date of death (2021-11-11)11 November 2021[1]
Original team(s) Shepparton
Height 188 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight 87 kg (192 lb)
Position(s) Forward
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1952–1953 Fitzroy 26 (48)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1953.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Joe Hickey (7 March 1929 – 11 November 2021) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Family

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The son of Daniel James Hickey (1890-1954),[2][3] and Josephine Marie Hickey (1894-1988), née Wilson,[4] Joseph Hickey was born on 7 March 1929.

He married Audrey May Hoare in 1955.

Joe Hickey’s granddaughter is Australian Olympian Madeline Heiner; and, according to Joe, she acquired all her running ability from him.

Football

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Ftitzroy (VFL)

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Hickey was a key forward, recruited to Fitzroy from Shepparton.[5]

He made 13 appearances for Fitzroy in 1952, including their preliminary final loss to Collingwood.[6] In 1953 he was Fitzroy's leading goal-kicker with 40 goals, including 8 eight goals against North Melbourne at Brunswick Street Oval.[6]

After Fitzroy

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Following the death of his father in a road accident on 25 February 1954, Hickey decided to work at his Invergordon farm full-time.[7]

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