Bill Young (Australian rules footballer)
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| Personal information | |
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| Birth | 6 June 1931 , |
| Recruited from | Stratford |
| Height and weight | 179cm (5'10½") / 73kg (11st 7lbs) |
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| Debut | Round 3, 28 April 1956, St Kilda vs. Carlton, at Junction Oval |
| Team(s) | St Kilda (1956-1961)
94 games, 274 goals |
| ¹ Statistics to end of 2005 season | |
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William D. (Bill) Young (born 6 June 1931) is a former Australian rules footballer in the VFL.
Young was an all-round sportsman — a top goal scorer in country football; a cricketer who once top-scored for a Victorian country team against England; he was also a well-performed track cyclist.
Young, played with St Kilda a full forward kicking 56 goals in his debut year, winning the VFL's Coleman Medal goalkicking award.
He was also St Kilda's leading goal-kicker from 1956 to 1960.
Blair Campbell credited him with inventing the reverse punt shot at goal (he was most certainly the first VFL player to do so).
Young was rather frail, and he had an unusual characteristic for a full forward: he could not mark above his shoulders, and would often leap vertically to extraordinary heights to enable him to mark a ball on his chest that others of his height and weight might have struggled to take overhead.
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| Preceded by Noel Rayson |
Coleman Medallist 1956 |
Succeeded by Jack Collins |
