Ray Baxter is a former Australian rules football

Australian rules football

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er who played with Footscray

Western Bulldogs

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 in the Victorian Football League

Australian Football League

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 (VFL

Recruited locally, from Kingsville, Baxter was a follower and key position player. He topped Footscray's goal-kicking in the 1959 VFL season

1959 VFL season

Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1959.-Premiership season:In 1959, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus two substitute players, known as the 19th man and the 20th man...

, with 35 goals, six of which came in a loss to Essendon

Essendon Football Club

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 at Windy Hill

Windy Hill, Essendon

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. His efforts were rewarded with selection in that year's Victorian team which played Tasmania. He was the club's leading goal-kicker again in 1960, managing 37 goals, the seventh biggest tally in the league that season. Playing as a centre half-back

Centre half-back

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, Baxter was a member of the Footscray team which won the 1963 Night Premiership

Australian Football League pre-season competition

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Darren Baxter

Darren Baxter (Australian footballer)

Darren Baxter is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray and Hawthorn in the Australian Football League ....

, his son, would also play for Footscray.