Career
Burns, a rover, was recruited to Collingwood from Preston. He kicked 25 goals in 1960, three of them in a match winning performance against Fitzroy in the Preliminary Final. Burns was then in the forward pocket when Collingwood were comprehensively beaten by Melbourne in the Grand Final.
Burns however missed the Grand Final, where Sandringham beat Moorabbin by a single point.
He captained the Victorian Football Association in the 1966 Hobart Carnival, by which time he had become captain-coach of Brunswick. Burns later coached Collingwood"s Under-19s football team
