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Roy West (31 March 1941 – 19 November 2011) was an Australian rules footballer for the Geelong Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1960s.
West was a fullback and won the 1961 Carji Greeves Medal for Geelong's best and fairest player.
On 6 July 1963 he was a member of the Geelong team that were comprehensively and unexpectedly beaten by Fitzroy, 9.13 (67) to 3.13 (31) in the 1963 Miracle Match. He was a premiership player in 1963 and represented Victoria at interstate football.
Following a year-long battle with lung cancer, West died in a Ballarat hospital on 19 November 2011, aged 70.
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