Geoff Grover

Australian rules footballer (1943-2017)

Geoffrey David "Geoff" Grover (19 September 1943 – 12 April 2017),[1] was a former Australian rules footballer.

Geoff Grover
Personal information
Full name Geoffrey David Grover
Date of birth (1943-09-19)19 September 1943
Date of death 12 April 2017(2017-04-12) (aged 73)
Original team Caulfield Grammarians (VAFA)
Position(s) full-back

Grover played for two seasons with the Caulfield Grammarians Football Club in the Victorian Amateur Football Association, and was a business and marketing expert, who finished his career working in real estate on the Queensland Sunshine Coast.

He played 119 senior games for the Port Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football Association (VFA), including the 1967 Grand Final against Dandenong Football Club.

Grover was born in Glen Huntly, Victoria. He studied at Albury Grammar School, Caulfield Grammar School, Monash University, and the University of Melbourne.

In the 1980s he was National President of the Furniture Manufacturers Association.

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  Media related to Geoff Grover at Wikimedia Commons

  • Caulfield Grammarians Complete Player List: Season Debut & Player Number, Caulfield Grammarians Football Club, 2015.
  • Devaney, J., Full Points Footy: Encyclopedia of Australian Football Clubs Volume One, Full Points Publications, (Lincoln), 2008.
  • Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
  • Australian National Football Council (ANFC), “Player Details”, Australian National Football Championships: Programme, Saturday, 11th June 1966, (Hobart), 1966.
  • Webber, H., Years May Pass On... Caulfield Grammar School, 1881–1981, Centenary Committee, Caulfield Grammar School, (East St Kilda), 1981. ISBN 0-9594242-0-2