Terry played his first senior game in 1967 and went onto win Manuka’s best first year player award in his first season at senior level. He kicked his first century in 1969, booting 112 goals to take the ACTAFL goal kicking, an award he also won in1970 and 1973. Although posting another century (110) in 1972, he was eclipsed by Eastlake’s mercurial David Morgan (134).
He had outstanding speed and a great kicking action and in the first semi-final in 1980 against Eastlake, he broke Jack Dorman’s long-standing record of 216 games which had stood since 1954. It was Terry’s last year of football and after playing in the preliminary final and Grand Final, he finished on 219 senior games.
Terry won Manuka’s best and fairest in 1969, was runner-up in 1972 and won best clubman in 1974 and 1975. In 1979 he was the inaugural winner of the Merit Medallion for his services to Manuka Football Club.
His greatest performance, arguably, was in a losing Grand Final. In 1976 he kicked ten of Manuka’s thirteen goals as they went down to Eastlake.
He also represented the ACT fifteen times.
His son Michael went on to play 103 games with Eastlake winning the best and fairest in 2004. Only one other father/son combination has done so at Manuka and Eastlake.
He served on the Manuka committee and was the driving force of their fundraising in the early 1980s and was awarded Life Membership of Manuka in 1980.
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