From the Archives   

The 1965 St Virgil’s Old Scholars Senior Team 

From the right: Ross Parker ( C ), Mike Rainbow ( VC ), David Spratt*, Peter Kennedy, Martin Healy*, Michael Quinn, Peter Bailey,  Gerald Jones, Kevin Imlach*, Gerald O’Dea, Tony Dowd, Greg Hope, Jim Kelly, Brian Chapman, Rick Mulligan, John Pegler, unknown,  Stuart Ellis*, Dennis Graves, Greg Fookes  (* deceased)

Ross Parker Captained the Tasmanian Amateur Team and was awarded the medal for best player in the second tier of the 1962 National Carnival.  He also won the Best & Fairest Medal at the Australian Amateur Football Carnival in 1962 in Melbourne, Captained the Tasmanian team at the 1964 carnival and won two Southern Old Scholars Association Best &  Fairest Awards and several club B&F’s.

Ross’ medal from the 1962 carnival is on loan to the College and is displayed in the Centenary History Centre at Austins Ferry.