Richard W. Bray, known as Richie Bray, was an Aboriginal Australian rules footballer who played for the Port Adelaide Football Club.
As a child, Bray was a resident of St Francis House, a home for inland Aboriginal Australian boys from 1946 to 1959 in the Adelaide suburb of Semaphore South,[1] a beachside suburb of Adelaide near Port Adelaide, South Australia.
[2] There he was treated with kindness, sent to the local school, and met other future Aboriginal leaders and activists, including Gordon Briscoe, John Kundereri Moriarty, Charles Perkins, Vince Copley, Malcolm Cooper, and others.
[3][4] Bray played a single game for Port Adelaide F.C.
He mostly played half forward flank, and kicked 65 goals,[5] but in the 1962 Grand Final (when Port Adelaide won the Grand Final against West Adelaide), he played on the wing.