This HTML5 document contains 178 embedded RDF statements represented using HTML+Microdata notation.

The embedded RDF content will be recognized by any processor of HTML5 Microdata.

Subject Item

dbr:Gary_Moorcroft

rdf:type

yago:CausalAgent100007347 wd:Q19088 yago:Athlete109820263 schema:Person dbo:Person dbo:Athlete dbo:Eukaryote yago:WikicatLivingPeople owl:Thing yago:Contestant109613191 yago:LivingThing100004258 yago:Player110439851 yago:PhysicalEntity100001930 dbo:Species yago:WikicatBundooraFootballClubPlayers yago:Organism100004475 yago:WikicatEssendonFootballClubPlayers yago:Object100002684 yago:Person100007846 yago:WikicatMelbourneFootballClubPlayers yago:WikicatNorthernKnightsPlayers yago:Whole100003553 wd:Q13414980 foaf:Person dbo:Animal wd:Q215627 yago:YagoLegalActor wd:Q5 yago:YagoLegalActorGeo wd:Q729 yago:FootballPlayer110101634 n39: n40:NaturalPerson dbo:AustralianRulesFootballPlayer

rdfs:label

Gary Moorcroft

rdfs:comment

Gary Moorcroft (born 16 April 1976) is a former Australian rules football player for Essendon and Melbourne in the Australian Football League (AFL). Moorcroft caught the attention of talent scouts by winning the Morrish Medal in 1994 whilst playing for the Northern Knights. Moorcroft played in three losing games with the Demons and suffered a severe season-ending knee injury after a lacklustre team debut. This effectively brought an end to his chances of working his way back into the side, and he was almost immediately delisted. The then-27-year-old's 98-game, nine-year AFL career ended there.

owl:sameAs

yago-res:Gary_Moorcroft wd:Q5525613 n23:4k8rV dbr:Gary_Moorcroft n32:0cr_91

foaf:name

Gary Moorcroft

dbp:name

Gary Moorcroft

foaf:topic

n5: n7:this dbr:2000_AFL_finals_series dbr:2000_AFL_Grand_Final dbr:Mitch_Hannan dbr:Super-Flood dbr:2001_AFL_Grand_Final dbr:Spectacular_mark dbr:Northern_Football_Netball_League dbr:Essendon_Football_Club n20: n22: n29: dbr:2002_AFL_draft dbr:1996_AFL_draft dbr:1994_AFL_draft n31: dbr:Bundoora_Football_Club wikipedia-en:Gary_Moorcroft dbr:1999_AFL_First_Preliminary_Final dbr:2001_AFL_season n37:_Gary dbr:Mark_of_the_Year

foaf:depiction

n34:jpg

wdrs:describedby

n25:2003_AFL_season n26:1976_births n25:Melbourne

dbo:birthDate

1976-04-16

dct:subject

dbc:Northern_Knights_players dbc:Essendon_Football_Club_Premiership_players dbc:Living_people n28:AFL_Premiership_players dbc:Bundoora_Football_Club_players dbc:Essendon_Football_Club_players dbc:Melbourne_Football_Club_players dbc:1976_births n38:

dbo:wikiPageID

4872997

dbo:wikiPageRevisionID

1118836147

dbo:wikiPageWikiLink

dbr:Essendon_Football_Club dbr:Bundoora_Football_Club dbr:St_Kilda_Football_Club dbr:Australian_Football_League dbr:1999_AFL_season dbc:Essendon_Football_Club_Premiership_players dbc:Living_people dbc:Northern_Knights_players dbr:Melbourne dbr:Australian_rules_football n18:_Netball_League dbr:1996_AFL_season dbr:1997_AFL_season dbr:Bendigo_Gold_Football_Club dbr:2002_AFL_season dbr:2003_AFL_season dbr:1998_AFL_season dbr:1995_AFL_season dbr:Mark_of_the_Year dbr:Brisbane_Lions dbr:Riddell_District_Football_Netball_League dbr:2002_AFL_draft n28:AFL_Premiership_players dbr:2000_AFL_Grand_Final n19: dbr:AFL_Mark_of_the_Year n30: n20: dbr:Australian_rules_football_injuries dbr:Goalsneak dbr:2001_AFL_Grand_Final dbr:Romsey_Football_Club dbr:Western_Bulldogs dbc:Essendon_Football_Club_players dbr:Morrish_Medal dbr:2000_AFL_season dbc:Bundoora_Football_Club_players dbr:2001_AFL_season dbc:Melbourne_Football_Club_players dbr:Northern_Knights n38: dbc:1976_births n41: dbr:Melbourne_Football_Club dbr:Spectacular_mark

foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf

wikipedia-en:Gary_Moorcroft

dbp:debutdate

Round 5, 1995

dbp:debutteam

dbr:Essendon_Football_Club

prov:wasDerivedFrom

n12:0

dbo:abstract

Gary Moorcroft (born 16 April 1976) is a former Australian rules football player for Essendon and Melbourne in the Australian Football League (AFL). Moorcroft caught the attention of talent scouts by winning the Morrish Medal in 1994 whilst playing for the Northern Knights. As a football player, Moorcroft was a short, stocky and explosive goalsneak who participated in a premiership with Essendon in 2000 and a Grand Final side against the Brisbane Lions in 2001. He was delisted by Essendon in 2002 after playing 95 games and struggling to retain his spot in a talented side. It was the Demons—who Essendon beat in the 2000 final, in which Moorcroft was an outstanding player—who picked him up in the 2002 AFL draft. Moorcroft played in three losing games with the Demons and suffered a severe season-ending knee injury after a lacklustre team debut. This effectively brought an end to his chances of working his way back into the side, and he was almost immediately delisted. The then-27-year-old's 98-game, nine-year AFL career ended there. Moorcroft is best known for winning the 2001 Mark of the Year while playing with Essendon, taking a spectacular high-flying mark in Round 14, 2001, over Western Bulldogs' forward Brad Johnson. it is considered to be the greatest mark of all time by many, including in a 2021 AFL-run poll of more than 30,000 fans, where Moorcroft won with 25% of the vote. The mark was particularly notable in that Moorcroft first jumped onto Johnson's back and then leapt even higher into the air by leveraging himself off Johnson; this is very rare, as players will usually jump onto their opponent's back and then merely hang at the same height while taking the mark (hence the colloquial term hanger for such a mark). For a similar reason, Johnson is often referred to as the springboard for this mark, while the term stepladder is used for the player underneath a hanger. Moorcroft also managed to kick six goals before half-time in the same game, including five goals in the second quarter; for reference, Moorcroft had kicked just three goals from the past nine games. His dominance in the first half was so profound that at one stage he had two players playing on him at the same time, including opposition captain Chris Grant, just to negate his impact. In fact, he had five different opponents within the first half. Moorcroft found out eight months later that he had fractured his hip in the process of his famous mark, severely limiting his career prospects. Moorcroft spent a season at Bendigo Bombers in the VFL before retiring from AFL/VFL and moving into the local leagues. In 2005, Moorcroft joined the Silvan F.C. in the Yarra Valley Mountain Football League. During his time at Silvan, Moorcroft won four club best-and-fairest awards and broke the 100-goal mark twice, including topping the goalkicking tables of all leagues, with 163 goals in 2008 alone. In fact, this season was so dominant for Moorcroft that he had registered his 100th goal during Round 11. Of his three grand finals at Silvan, two of these were back-to-back premierships in 2007/08. In 2009/10, Moorcroft was playing for the Romsey Redbacks in the Riddell District Football League (RDFL). In 2011, Moorcroft joined Bundoora in the Northern Football League (NFL) and has played in three premierships with the Bulls (2011, 2013 & 2017). As a 41-year-old, he kicked the winning goal in the 2017 Grand Final. At the completion of the 2019 season, while still playing at a high level at Bundoora, and at 43 years old, Moorcroft announced his retirement from senior footy for good.

dbo:thumbnail

n33:300

dbp:caption

Moorcroft's 2001 Mark of the Year

dbp:height

173.0

dbp:wordnet_type

n36:synset-football_player-noun-1

dbp:fullname

Gary Moorcroft

dbp:years

2003 1995

dbp:birthDate

1976-04-16

dbp:weight

86.0

dbp:careerhighlights

*Morrish Medal 1994 *AFL Mark of the Year 2001 *Premiership side 2000

dbp:debutopponent

dbr:St_Kilda_Football_Club

dbp:debutstadium

n19: dbr:Melbourne

dbp:gamesGoals

95 3

dbp:gamesGoalstotal

98

dbp:originalteam

dbr:Northern_Knights

dbp:statsend

2003

dbp:club

dbr:Essendon_Football_Club dbr:Melbourne_Football_Club

dbo:height

1.73

dbo:weight

86000.0

dbo:careerStation

dbr:Gary_Moorcroft__CareerStation__1 dbr:Gary_Moorcroft__CareerStation__2

dbo:debutTeam

dbr:Essendon_Football_Club

dbo:wikiPageLength

8929

n21:height

173.0

n21:weight

86.0

dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate

dbt:Birth_date_and_age dbt:0 dbt:Infobox_AFL_biography dbt:Use_Australian_English dbt:2000_Essendon_premiership_players dbt:Short_description dbt:AFL_Ess dbt:2002_AFL_national_draft dbt:Morrish_Medal dbt:Alex_Jesaulenko_Medal dbt:AFL_Mel dbt:Melbplayer dbt:Use_dmy_dates dbt:1997_AFL_rookie_draft dbt:AFL_Tables dbt:Reflist dbt:1994_AFL_national_draft dbt:AFL_player_statistics_start