George Edward Tribe lived from 4 October 1920 to 5 April 2009 and was an Australian cricketer who played three Test matches in 1946 and 1947 as well as an Australian rules footballer with the Footscray Football Club in the Victorian Football League. He made his football debut with Footscray in 1940 and played as a forward and dangerous goalkicker, kicking 80 goals in 66 games before his last match in 1946. After the Second World War he turned to cricket, playing under Donald Bradman in the 1946-47 Ashes series, then moved to England, where he played for Northamptonshire for nine seasons, achieved the double of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets seven times and was named a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1955.
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