Bill Walton (footballer)

For other people with similar names, see William Walton (disambiguation).

Bill Walton
Personal information
Full name	William Henry Walton
Date of birth	(1894-09-03)3 September 1894
Date of death	24 July 1953(1953-07-24) (aged 58)
Place of death	St. Kilda
Original team(s)	Port Melbourne
Height/Weight	178 cm / 82 kg
Position(s)	Forward
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1918–1919	Collingwood	27 (17)
¹ Playing statistics correct to end of 1919 season.

William 'Bill' Walton (3 September 1894 – 24 July 1953^[1]) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Walton started his career at Victorian Football Association (VFA) club Port Melbourne and was their leading goal-kicker in 1914. Enticed to join Collingwood in 1918, Walton appeared in Grand Finals in both his seasons with Collingwood. He played centre half forward in the 1918 VFL Grand Final loss to South Melbourne and centre half back in the 1919 premiership team.

Walton returned to Port Melbourne in 1920 and was appointed captain-coach of Hawthorn (then playing in the VFA) in 1922. He was however refused a clearance by Port Melbourne and as a result spent the season playing for them, while coaching Hawthorn during the week. Twice that season, he had the unusual situation of playing a VFA game against the club that he coached. In one of those matches a Port Melbourne teammate had to be restrained from striking Walton over Walton's vocal support for the player's opponent.^[2] In 1923 he was granted his clearance and steered Hawthorn into the finals.

In 1925 he accepted a position to captain-coach Stawell in the Wimmera District Football League. He led the team to a premiership but left town the following year.^[3]

In later years he was the licensee of the Sir Henry Loch Hotel in Collingwood. ^[4] He died after a short illness leaving a wife and a daughter and a son.

References

↑ "Bill Walton". Collingwood Forever. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
↑ Atkinson, p. 168.
↑ History of the Stawell Football Club ISBN 9780987139412
↑ Former Magpie player dead

Sources

Atkinson, G. (1982) Everything you ever wanted to know about Australian rules football but couldn't be bothered asking, The Five Mile Press: Melbourne. ISBN 0 86788 009 0.
Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.

External links

Bill Walton's statistics from AFL Tables

Collingwood Football Club 1919 VFL Premiers

Collingwood 11.12 (78) defeated Richmond 7.11 (53), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground

Captain: 14. McCarthy 2. Curtis 4. Colechin 5. Drummond 6. Hughes 7. Haysom 10. Lumsden 11. Laxton 12. Mutch 13. Lee 15. Pannam 16. Reynolds 17. Sheehy 18. Saunders 19. Wilson 21. Walton 24. Twomey 26. Seddon

Coach: McHale

Coaches of the Hawthorn Football Club

1914: Gough 1915: P. Woods 1919: McKenzie 1920: Alley 1920–1921: Rademacher 1922–1924: Walton 1925: Hall 1926–1927: Minogue 1928: Sutton 1929: Chadwick 1930–1931: Harris 1932: Jackson 1933: Phillips 1933: Rademacher 1933–1934: Twomey 1935–1938: McAlpine 1939: Thomas 1940–1941: Mills 1942–1943: Cazaly 1944: Lahiff 1945–1946: Shea 1947–1949: Albiston 1950–1951: McCaskill 1952–1959: Hale 1957: Kennedy 1960–1963: Kennedy 1964–1965: Arthur 1966: O'Donohue 1967–1976: Kennedy 1973: Simonds 1977–1980: Parkin 1981–1987: Jeans 1988: Joyce 1989–1990: Jeans 1991–1993: Joyce 1994–1995: Knights 1996–1999: Judge 2000–2004: Schwab 2001: Connolly 2004: McDonald 2005–: Clarkson 2014: Bolton

Italics denote caretaker coach

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