Roy Moore was an Australian rules football

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er who played with South Melbourne

Sydney Swans

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 in the Victorian Football League

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 (VFL) during the 1930s. His father Herbert Moore played a game for South Melbourne in their premiership year of 1909

1909 VFL season

Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1909.-Premiership season:In 1909, the VFL competition consisted of ten teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no "reserves", although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume their...

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Moore, a forward who liked the torpedo punt, came to South Melbourne from the Sandhurst Football Club

Sandhurst Football Club

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 in Bendigo

Bendigo, Victoria

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. He kicked 52 goals in his debut VFL season. Two of those came in South Melbourne's losing 1935 VFL Grand Final

1935 VFL Grand Final

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 team, where he replaced the injured Bob Pratt

Bob Pratt

Harold Robert "Bob" Pratt was a former Australian rules footballer from Mitcham, Victoria.Pratt played with South Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League from 1930–1939 and again in 1946, and with the Coburg Football Club in the Victorian Football Association from 1940 to 1941...

 at full-forward, and he also kicked two goals in another losing Grand Final

1936 VFL Grand Final

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 the following season.

Late in the 1937 season

1937 VFL season

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, against Fitzroy

Fitzroy Football Club

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 at Lake Oval

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, Moore bagged a career best nine goals, despite the entire South Melbourne team managing just ten in the entire game. Only Collingwood's

Collingwood Football Club

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 Dick Lee

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 has kicked that many goals in a game where only one other kicked a major score.

A leg injury restricted his appearances towards the end of his career but Moore managed to finish as his club's top goal-kicker in 1938

1938 VFL season

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 with 34 goals. He represented the VFL on one occasion, in a game against the VFA

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