Stephen Wallis

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Stephen Wallis
Personal information
Date of birth	(1964-10-27) 27 October 1964
Original team	Leongatha
Debut	1983, Round 1, Footscray v. Geelong
Height/Weight	180 cm / 83 kg
Playing career
Footscray (1983–1996) 261 Games, 57 goals
Career highlights
Footscray captain 1989 Victorian State Representative 1985, 1991 (3 games)

Stephen "Wally" Wallis (born 27 October 1964) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League (formerly the VFL).

Originally from Leongatha, Victoria, Wallis arrived at the Footscray Football Club in 1982 and suffered an injury in a reserves game which kept him out for the rest of the season. He made his senior VFL debut in 1983 and became a solid defender and occasional midfielder.

In 1989, Wallis was appointed captain of the Bulldogs,^[1] and became a representative of Victoria in State of Origin. Midway through 1991 he suffered a broken wrist, forcing him to miss the rest of the season, but returned in 1992 to help the Bulldogs to the finals. However, injury struck again early in the following year when he badly injured his knee.

In 1996, Wallis announced his retirement and played his last game with in a three-point loss to Essendon (which was documented in the film Year of the Dogs).^[2]

He holds the record for Footscray's most consecutive games from debut.

He has a son Mitchell Wallis who played for the Calder Cannons in 2009 and 2010 and was best on ground in the TAC Cup Grand Final. Mitchell was drafted under the Father son rule in the 2010 AFL Draft.^[3]

References

External links

Stephen Wallis's statistics from AFL Tables

Preceded by Rick Kennedy	Footscray Football Club captain 1989	Succeeded by Doug Hawkins

Captains of the Footscray Football Club/Western Bulldogs

1925–1926: McCarthy
1926: Hopkins
1927–1928: Scanlan
1929–1930: Hopkins
1931–1932: Cubbins
1933: McAlpine
1934: Cubbins
1934–1935: Morrison
1936: Penberthy
1937: Dockendorff
1937: Morrison
1938–1939: Evans
1940–1942: Ware
1943–1946: Olliver
1947: Hickey
1948–1950: Olliver
1951–1956: Sutton
1956: Donald
1957: Stevens
1957–1970: Whitten
1970: Magee
1971–1972: Dempsey
1973: Thorpe
1974–1976: Sandilands
1977–1978: Dempsey
1979–1981: Jennings
1982: Templeton
1983–1985: Edmond
1986–1988: Kennedy
1989: Wallis
1990–1993: Hawkins
1994–2000: Wynd
2001–2004: Grant
2005–2006: Darcy
2007–2010: Johnson
2011–2013: Boyd
2014–: Griffen

Persondata
Name	Wallis, Stephen
Alternative names
Short description	Australian rules footballer
Date of birth	27 October 1964
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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