Wally Clark (Australian footballer)
| Wally Clark | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Wally Clark | ||
| Date of birth | 25 May 1936 | ||
| Original team(s) | Fitzroy U19s | ||
| Height | 168 cm (5 ft 6 in) | ||
| Weight | 74 kg (163 lb) | ||
| Position(s) | Rover | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1955–1962 | Fitzroy | 105 (120) | |
| Coaching career | |||
| Years | Club | Games (W–L–D) | |
| 1963 | Fitzroy | 1 (1–0–0) | |
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1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1962. | |||
| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
Wally Clark (born 25 May 1936) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Clark, who was at Fitzroy from underage level, played as a rover. He was their top goal-kicker with 21 goals in 1962 but had his best goal kicking year when he bagged 33 two years earlier.
Although he retired from the seniors in 1963, Clark continued in the Fitzroy reserves as captain-coach and won a Gardiner Medal[1] for his on field performances.
Clark coached the senior Fitzroy side for only one match, in the tenth round in 1963, when Kevin Murray, the captain-coach, was away playing for Victoria. Fitzroy beat Geelong 9.13 (67) to 3.13 (31).[2] Not only was it Fitzroy's only victory of the 1963 season, it was achieved over the eventual 1963 premiers.[3]
The following season he went to Tasmania where he became captain-coach of NWFU club Latrobe.
References
- ^ http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/118997 VFL Record, 14 September 1963, page 29
- ^ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oEYVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pZYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3688%2C1162848 The Age, 8 July 1963, page 19
- ^ Michell, Tim. "Momentous Fitzroy Victorian Football League win chronicled by sports writer Ken Piesse". Herald-Sun. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
External links
- Wally Clark's playing statistics from AFL Tables
- Wally Clark at AustralianFootball.com
Source
- Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
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