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Douglas ‘Doug’ Samuel Heywood (10 December 1924 – 26 July 2002) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1940s and early 1950s before becoming a noted sports commentator.As a schoolboy at Scotch College Heywood excelled in multiple sports including tennis in which he won the Victorian Schoolboys Doubles title in 1942 and football where he captained the team into an undefeated year in 1942.