Bruce Bentley
From Blueseum - History of the Carlton Football Club
Career: 1964
First and only Game: Round 9, 1964 vs Richmond, aged 19 years, 278 days
Carlton Player No. 765
Goals: 0
Guernsey No. 13 (1963 - 1965).
Height: 183cm
Weight: 80kg
DOB: 9 September, 1944
Wearing jumper #13, Bentley played a single game for Carlton in Season 1964, he was on the Carlton list for 3 seasons (1963 - 1965).
Bruce is the son of Percy Bentley and came from East Brighton.
Bentley also wore guernsey No. 42 whilst playing with Carlton reserves team in 1963.
Ten or so years before his debut for Carlton, a young Bruce appeared as a team mascot in a photo in 1952 and from the Argus (below) on August 13 1954
Links
Blueseum: Summary of playing statistics for Bruce Bentley
Gallery
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1964 - Bruce Bentley. -
Bruce Bentley - MascotA young Bruce Bentley posed as team mascot in a photo in the Argus of August 13 1954. Ten years later he would play a single game for the Blues. -
Bruce Bentley 1955 -
1949 Carlton Coach And Future CFC Player Bruce Age April 11 P12 Capture -
1964 Wells Cartoon Age CFC 100th May 08 P22 Capture
