VFL Mark of the Year 1969 - Danny Hibbert

[stoliboy]

I was looking through an old Truth newspaper book and saw this amazing photo of Collingwood player Danny Hibbert taking Mark of the Year in 1969.

I was wondering if there is any video of this mark or any Nicksters have any more detail on the mark.

Article says:

It's The Mark of the Year

Breath-Taking Leaps distinguish Australian Rules from all other football codes, and spectacular high marking is the feature that makes the crowd roar. And how the Magpie fans roared when tiny Danny Hibbert took this screamer over Geelong's Geoff Ainsworth at Victoria Park. Truth Sporting Editor, Brian Hansen, judged it the Mark of the Year..


https://afltables.com/afl/stats/games/1969/040919690614.html

Round: 10 Venue: Victoria Park Date: Sat, 14-Jun-1969 2:10 PM Attendance: 38437
Collingwood: 14.22.(106)
Geelong: 8.11.(59)

Danny Hibbert kicked 5 goals, Peter McKenna 4 goals.

[David]

Nice! I'm guessing chances are slim that any recording of it would exist – I had a quick look online and there's footage from that same round's "Match of the Day", Richmond vs St Kilda. Which I'm guessing means that that was the only game that round that was telecast in any form:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hU4FdfropQ

Otherwise, there is some footage of a Collingwood match vs St Kilda from Round 3, 1968, so you may be able to see Hibbert in action there (it was his first match; he's wearing #36). Unfortunately we lost, and he kicked one of our only two goals for the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5pUrxlGBfI

Not expressly Collingwood-related, but a compilation of marks from the 1960s here: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=463728814558741