Bruce Williams (footballer)

Bruce Frederick Williams (26 April 1939 – 25 July 2022) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Bruce Williams
Personal information
Full name Bruce Frederick Williams
Date of birth (1939-04-26)26 April 1939
Date of death 25 July 2022(2022-07-25) (aged 83)[1]
Place of death Burleigh Heads, Queensland, Australia
Original team(s) Morwell
Height 175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 70 kg (154 lb)
Position(s) Rover
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1959–1964 Carlton 62 (56)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1964.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Family

He married Sylvia Leslie Sewell in 1961.

Football

Carlton (VFL)

Williams played 16 games in his first VFL season, in 1959, after coming to the club from Morwell.[2]

He received few opportunities to play senior football over the next two seasons but was a regular member of the team in 1962 and contributed nine goals in the finals series.[3] A rover, he kicked three goals of those goals for Carlton in the 1962 VFL Grand Final, the most from his team, but it wasn't enough to secure a win.[3]

He made just one appearance in 1964 before he was cleared to Morwell, his original club.

Morwell (SGFL)

He returned to the Morwell Football Club in the South Gippsland Football League.

Although he arrived to take up a position of assistant coach, he was the team's coach later in the year when Graham Donaldson was in hospital. In 1966 he was appointed Morwell's permanent senior coach.[4][5]

Notes
  1. "Vale Bruce Williams". Carlton Football Club.
  2. Holmesby & Main (2007).
  3. AFL Tables: Bruce Williams
  4. The Age,"Donaldson has Back Injury", 14 September 1964, p. 11
  5. The Age,"Bruce Williams Morwell coach", 18 November 1966, p. 11

References
  • Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia Of AFL Footballers. BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-920910-78-5
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