[1] Dansie moved to Adelaide with his family as a child and excelled in a wide range of sports, including cricket, Australian rules football and baseball.
[7] During his final Sheffield Shield season, he showed his all-round prowess once again with the bat and ball taking 26 scalps and scoring 405 runs which also included a century against Queensland during Boxing Day match in 1966.
His total tally of 6692 runs in 107 first-class matches puts him only behind Darren Lehmann, Greg Blewett, David Hookes, Callum Ferguson, Les Favell and Ian Chappell in the list of all-time top runscorers for South Australia in Sheffield Shield history.
[4] In 1976 Dansie was made a selector for the South Australian senior cricket side and all its under-age and women's teams, serving for 30 years.
[4] Dansie also found time to work for the South Australian Education Department, including many years as the bursar at Norwood Morialta High School.
[11] He and his former teammate Les Favell are honoured in the Favell-Dansie Indoor Centre at the southern end of Adelaide Oval, behind the Sir Donald Bradman Stand.