Happy 70th birthday to Bruce Bentley
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From the Blueseum
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 years before his debut for Carlton, a young Bruce appeared as a team mascot in a photo from the Argus on August 13 1954.