Wally Clark (footballer)

For the English footballer, see Wally Clark (English footballer).
Wally Clark
Personal information
Full nameWally Clark
Date of birth25 May 1936
Original teamFitzroy U19s
Height/Weight168 cm / 74 kg
Position(s)Rover
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
1955-1962Fitzroy105 (120)
Coaching career
YearsClubGames (W–L–D)
1963Fitzroy1 (1-0-0)
1 Playing statistics correct to end of 1962 season.

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 for his on field performances. The following season he went to Tasmania where he became captain-coach of NWFU club Latrobe.

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