Brian Joseph Morrison (14 July 1938 – 23 December 2020)[2] was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
[3] His grandson, Harry Morrison, plays for Hawthorn in the Australian Football League.
[4] Recruited from Avenel Football Club, where he had played from 1956 to 1959, in 1960, he only played with Richmond for a single season, before returning to Euroa where he worked as a sheep shearer.
[6] According to Hogan (1996, p.153) he was captain-coach of the Violet Town Football Club in 1964.
He won the Australian Open Shearing title twice — in 1967 and 1968 — and, on 11 February 1972, at the RSL Hall in Euroa, Victoria, he set an Australian record by shearing 410 sheep in a day (i.e., under eight hours).