Lou Richards

Lou Richards
Personal information
Full name Lewis Thomas Charles Richards
Nickname(s) Lou, Louie the Lip
Date of birth (1923-03-15)15 March 1923
Place of birth Collingwood, Victoria, Australia
Date of death 8 May 2017(2017-05-08) (aged 94)
Place of death Windsor, Victoria, Australia
Original team Abbotsford
Career highlights

Lewis Thomas Charles "Lou" Richards (15 March 1923 – 8 May 2017) was an Australian rules footballer. He played 250 games for the Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1941 and 1955. e captained the team from 1952 to 1955, including a premiership win in 1953. He later became a hotel manager and a highly well known sports journalist. He was born in Collingwood, Victoria.

Richards was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1981, received an Australian Sports Medal in 2000, and was awarded a Centenary Medal in 2001.

On 8 May 2017, Richards died at his nursing home in the Melbourne suburb of Windsor from dementia-related complications at the age of 94.

References

  1. ↑ Scott Palmer, 'Top 10 characters of the '70s' Archived 2011-05-24 at the Wayback Machine (4 Jul 2007), accessed on 9 Sep 2007
  2. ↑ "Lou Richards OBE". Sport Australia Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 16 December 2013. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  3. ↑ "Richards, Lewis Charles Thomas, MBE". It's an Honour. Archived from the original on 16 December 2013. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  4. ↑ The Age (8 May 2017). "Collingwood legend Lou Richards dies". Retrieved 8 May 2017.
  5. ↑ "Lou Richards dead: Collingwood great and famous broadcaster passes away at age 94". Fox Sports. 8 May 2017. Retrieved 8 May 2017.

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