Why Greg Dowd is on this page

Greg Dowd (19 March 1946 – 27 July 2002) was an Australian rules footballer who played senior football for the Footscray Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL), the competition that became the Australian Football League in 1990. He is one of several published Dowd carriers to make the senior grade of Australian rules football, a code whose origins overlap historically with Gaelic football and which carries a strong Irish-Australian following.

His VFL career and life details are recorded in the AFL Tables and AustralianFootball.com databases, where his match-by-match statistics for Footscray are preserved.

Sources

• Wikipedia — Greg Dowd.
• Wikidata Q19872985.

Heritage notes

Family root: diaspora-likely.

The directory threads Greg Dowd back to the Ó Dubhda clan story via the surname-variants reality — the same family carried these spellings as it scattered. See the septs and the diaspora for the wider pattern, or the Clan DNA Project for the genetic connections being mapped now.