At 185 centimetres (6 ft 1 in) in height, Collingwood's Mick Twomey was taller than his brothers Bill and Pat.

Recruited from Yarra Valley,[1] he played most of his 157 VFL games between 1951 and 1961 as a ruckman.

In fact he was short for a ruckman; but he had remarkable spring, and newspapers often carried photos of him seeming to soar over opponents.

[3] Over the course of his 10-year career Twomey was a member of five Collingwood Grand Final teams, enjoying premiership success in 1953 and 1958.

This Australian rules football biography of a person born in the 1930s is a stub.