Tony Ongarello

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Tony Ongarello
Personal information
Date of birth (1932-12-22)22 December 1932
Original team(s) Thornbury YCW
Height/Weight 185cm / 81 kg
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1952-1960 Fitzroy 131 (247)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1960 season.
Career highlights
  • Fitzroy leading goalkicker 1952, 1956 & 1958

Tony Ongarello (22 December 1932) is a former Australian rules footballer of Italian heritage who played with Fitzroy in the VFL.

Ongarello is believed to be the last player in the VFL/AFL to have scored a goal from a place kick, scoring two goals from the kicks late in Fitzroy's narrow loss to Geelong in 1955 at Brunswick Street Oval; Ongarello reportedly switched to the place kicks after missing several consecutive set shots from punt kicks in the game.[1]

He appeared regularly on ABC television Australian rules football panels in Victoria in the 1960s and 1970s.

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