Bruce Williams (footballer)
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| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Bruce Frederick Williams | ||
| Date of birth | 26 April 1939 | ||
| Date of death | 25 July 2022 (aged 83)[1] | ||
| Place of death | Burleigh Heads, Queensland, Australia | ||
| Original team(s) | Morwell | ||
| Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) | ||
| Position(s) | Rover | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1959–1964 | Carlton | 62 (56) | |
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1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1964. | |||
| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
Bruce Frederick Williams (26 April 1939 – 25 July 2022) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Family
[edit]He married Sylvia Leslie Sewell in 1961.
Football
[edit]Carlton (VFL)
[edit]Williams played 16 games in his first VFL season, in 1959, after coming to the club from Morwell.[2]
He received few opportunities to play senior football over the next two seasons but was a regular member of the team in 1962 and contributed nine goals in the finals series.[3] A rover, he kicked three goals of those goals for Carlton in the 1962 VFL Grand Final, the most from his team, but it wasn't enough to secure a win.[3]
He made just one appearance in 1964 before he was cleared to Morwell, his original club.
Morwell (SGFL)
[edit]He returned to the Morwell Football Club in the South Gippsland Football League.
Although he arrived to take up a position of assistant coach, he was the team's coach later in the year when Graham Donaldson was in hospital. In 1966 he was appointed Morwell's permanent senior coach.[4][5]
Notes
[edit]- ^ "Vale Bruce Williams". Carlton Football Club.
- ^ Holmesby & Main (2007).
- ^ a b AFL Tables: Bruce Williams
- ^ The Age,"Donaldson has Back Injury", 14 September 1964, p. 11
- ^ The Age,"Bruce Williams Morwell coach", 18 November 1966, p. 11
References
[edit]- Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia Of AFL Footballers. BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-920910-78-5
External links
[edit]- Bruce Williams's playing statistics from AFL Tables
- Bruce Williams at AustralianFootball.com
- Bruce Williams, at Blueseum.
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