Bill Walker (footballer)

Bill Walker (footballer)

Infobox afl player | firstname = Bill
lastname = Walker
image capt = Beau Wilkes and Bill Walker at Country Week 2008


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birthplace =New Zealand
originalteam = Swan Districts Football Club (WAFL) (1961-1976)
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playingteams = Swan Districts 305 games [cite web|url=http://www.swandistrictsfc.com/index.php?id=39|title=Swan Districts Football Club - WALKER - SWANS FAVOURITE SON|year=2008|accessdate=2008-07-24] .
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*Sandover Medal 1965,1966,1967 and 1970(retrospectively)
*Premiership player 1961,1962 and 1963

Bill Walker (born 23 February 1942) in New Zealand was an Australian rules footballer in the West Australian Football League (WAFL).

Born in New Zealand, Walker grew up in the wheatbelt town of Narembeen, Western Australia. [cite web|url=http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,22462381-2761,00.html|title=Trophy cabinet overflows in Wheatbelt town of Narembeen|year=2007|accessdate=2008-07-24]

Walker was a rover of outstanding capacity, tough and quick with great evasive skills, who played his whole career with Swan Districts Football Club. Playing in the grand final in his first season in 1961, he kicked the winning goal. He went on to play in winning grand finals in the next two seasons. He is the only player to have won four Sandover Medals as the league's fairest and best player [cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/wa/stories/s1069704.htm|title=ABC - Bill Walker, a football legend|year=2004|accessdate=2008-07-24] . His fourth medal was awarded as part of the (then) "Westar Rules" hierarchy's decision in 1997 to bestow retrospective Medals on those players who had lost only on countback.

In 1996 Walker was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame and in 2004 he was awarded Legend Status in the West Australian Football Hall of Fame.

Career highlights

* Swan Districts 1961-1976 (Games: 305 Goals: 456)
* Swan Districts Premiership player 1961, 1962, 1963
* Swan Districts Fairest & Best 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970
* Sandover Medallist 1965, 1966, 1967, 1970
* 21 State games for Western Australia
* Swan Districts Captain/Coach 1969-1971
* Swan Districts Captain 1972-1975
* All-Australian Team 1969 carnival
* Represented Australia in "The Galahs" Australian Football World Tour 1968
* Simpson Medallist 1967

References

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* [http://prod.www.afl.cfour.com.au/Season2007/Awards/HallofFame/Players/tabid/856/Default.aspx AFL: Hall of Fame]


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