{{Short description|Australian rules footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}} {{Use Australian English|date=May 2011}} {{Infobox AFL biography | name = Dan Keily | image = | fullname = Mortimer Patrick Keily | birth_date = 16 May 1892 | birth_place = Melbourne, Victoria | death_date = {{death date and age|1967|6|28|1892|5|16|df=yes}} | death_place = Preston, Victoria | originalteam = Brighton Jrs / Havelock | height = 178 cm | weight = 73 kg | position = Full-back, Wingman | statsend = 1921 | years1 = 1914–17, 1919–21 | club1 = Carlton | games_goals1 = 53 (1) | careerhighlights = }} '''Mortimer 'Dan' Keily''' (16 May 1892 – 28 June 1967) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).<ref>{{Ref AFL Encyc|10th|466}}</ref>
Keily, a Brighton junior and former Havelock player, struggled to cement a place in a strong Carlton team which made the finals in every season that he was at the club. After missing out on the 1914 and 1915 premierships, Keily was a losing Grand Finalist in 1916. A wingman or fullback, he received a life suspension<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154795992 |title=Football. |newspaper=Sporting Judge |volume=XXVI |issue=22 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=6 October 1917 |page=4}}</ref> after Carlton's 1917 semi-final loss to Fitzroy for using abusive language toward a steward at the subsequent tribunal hearing.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1647676 |title=FOOTBALL OFFENCES. |newspaper=The Argus |issue=22,187 |location=Melbourne, Australia |date=7 September 1917 |page=3}}</ref> The life suspension was lifted in the second half of the 1919 season, with Keily having effectively served a 24 match ban.
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==External links== *{{AFL Tables|ref=D/Dan_Keily.html}} *Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). ''The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers''. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
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