Bruce Stevenson (born 8 August 1949) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the VFL during the early 1970s. Bruce also played in the South Australian National Football League for a number of years.
Stevenson started his league career in 1969 after being recruited from Swinburne Tech. He was a Hawthorn premiership player in 1971, teaming well with Don Scott in the ruck.
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“Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.”
—Indian proverb, quoted in Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, ch. 30, “From the Notebooks” (1987)
“Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest—
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
Drink and the devil had done for the rest—
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)