Noongar Sports Award Recipient, 1998 Cyril Collard (20 September 1934 – 20 December 2011) played 13 games for Australian rules football club Hawthorn between 1957 and 1958, scoring 3 goals.
[1] He was the first Indigenous Australian to play for Hawthorn[2] being of the Noongar people of Western Australia.
Collard started his career at Subiaco Football Club achieving top three finishes in the best and fairest award during his two seasons at the club.
[3] He moved to Melbourne in 1956 and after initially training with Collingwood he chose to play with Hawthorn.
This Australian rules football biography of a person born in the 1930s is a stub.