title: Colin Sleep
text: # Colin Sleep
  
  Colin Sleep (born 8 October 1944) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1960s.
  
  ## Football
  
  ### Fitzroy (VFL)
  
  From Horsham originally, Sleep played his football mostly as a rover and centreman.
  
  He played five times for Fitzroy in 1962, his first season, followed by six in both 1963 and 1964. Four of his five career goals came in a match against North Melbourne at Brunswick Street in his final year.
  
  On 6 July 1963, playing on the wing, he was a member of the young and inexperienced Fitzroy team that comprehensively and unexpectedly defeated Geelong, 9.13 (67) to 3.13 (31) in the 1963 Miracle Match.
  
  ### Northcote (VFA)
  
  While playing for Northcote in the Victorian Football Association, Sleep represented the Association in the 1966 Hobart Carnival.
  
  In 1967, he tied on votes for the Division 2 Best and Fairest (later known as the Field Medal) but lost on countback; he was later retrospectively made joint winner of the award.
  
  