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Bruce Williams (footballer)

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Bruce Williams
Personal information
Full name Bruce Frederick Williams
Date of birth (1939-04-26)26 April 1939
Date of death 25 July 2022(2022-07-25) (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)
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

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He married Sylvia Leslie Sewell in 1961.

Football

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Carlton (VFL)

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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)

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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

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  1. ^ "Vale Bruce Williams". Carlton Football Club.
  2. ^ Holmesby & Main (2007).
  3. ^ a b AFL Tables: Bruce Williams
  4. ^ The Age,"Donaldson has Back Injury", 14 September 1964, p. 11
  5. ^ The Age,"Bruce Williams Morwell coach", 18 November 1966, p. 11

References

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  • Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia Of AFL Footballers. BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-920910-78-5
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