Wally Clark (Australian footballer)

Wally Clark (born 25 May 1936) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

For the English footballer, see Wally Clark (English footballer).

Wally Clark
Personal information
Full name Wally Clark
Date of birth (1936-05-25) 25 May 1936
Original team(s) Fitzroy U19s
Height 168 cm (5 ft 6 in)
Weight 74 kg (163 lb)
Position(s) Rover
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1955–1962 Fitzroy 105 (120)
Coaching career
Years Club Games (W–L–D)
1963 Fitzroy 1 (1–0–0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1962.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

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[1] for his on field performances.

Clark coached the senior Fitzroy side for only one match, in the tenth round in 1963, when Kevin Murray, the captain-coach, was away playing for Victoria. Fitzroy beat Geelong 9.13 (67) to 3.13 (31).[2] Not only was it Fitzroy's only victory of the 1963 season, it was achieved over the eventual 1963 premiers.[3]

The following season he went to Tasmania where he became captain-coach of NWFU club Latrobe.

References
  1. http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/118997 VFL Record, 14 September 1963, page 29
  2. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oEYVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pZYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3688%2C1162848 The Age, 8 July 1963, page 19
  3. Michell, Tim. "Momentous Fitzroy Victorian Football League win chronicled by sports writer Ken Piesse". Herald Sun. Retrieved 24 April 2018.

Source
  • Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.


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