Memory Lane
Each week we will display an interview with one of the past Western Australian players. The players will be remembered by football followers for their talents from the past. You will find out where they are now and what they feel about the game today, plus, relive the times in their era.
Keep a look out each week as we catch up with a past player on Memory Lane.
Mar 18, 2010
by Ron Head
Despite a deformed back as a legacy of being born with polio, East Fremantle forward Noel Avery was an outstanding junior sportsman, who gave up a promising cricket career in favour of football, only for studies to eventually force him out of competitive sport altogether at the age of twenty four.
The son… more »
Mar 16, 2010
by Ron Head
Football can lead players into many directions, but when David Snow played his first league game for Subiaco in 1990, he would have had no idea that he was embarking on a career that would culminate in selection for the All Asian side.
“It’s a good competition up here,” he told us over… more »
Mar 11, 2010
by Ron Head
Many good critics who saw Don Langdon play in the early sixties maintain that he was one of the best centre half forwards to ever play in the WANFL. He was certainly one of East Perth’s best, but it took some smart work from the man who signed some of the best, Hec Strempel, to… more »
Mar 9, 2010
by Ron Head
Hobart,1966 Australian Football Carnival.
The irrepressible Victorians had romped through the qualifying rounds with margins of 101 points and 68 points respectively over Tasmania and South Australia, while Western Australia had beaten the same sides by a combined total of 24 points.
Darryl Baldock had been in scintillating form for the… more »
Mar 4, 2010
by Ron Head
Perth legend, Terry Moriarty was one of the toughest, shrewdist, and closest checking half backs of the WANFL in the forties and fifties, and was best known for his dependability and groundplay, rather than spectacular marking.
Yet it was early in his career that he was written up in the… more »
Mar 2, 2010
by Ron Head
Players from the country have formed the nucleus of Western Australian football talent over many years, most notably since the fifties, when distance became less of a hurdle with travel becoming faster. There have been many star players from the bush, however, who have been forced to cut short promising careers because…
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Feb 25, 2010
by Ron Head
The dominant South Fremantle combination of 1952, 53, and 54 completed a unique hat trick in Western Australian football that has surely never been equalled or bettered, when they took off the league and reserves premiership double three years in a row.
There were naturally many players starring in the seconds each week… more »
Feb 23, 2010
by Ron Head
The name of Ivan Glucina would bring back memories for many a South Fremantle supporter of the sixties. Remembered for his solid efforts in the ruck, he was an imposing player at six foot four and a half and fifteen stone eight pounds and was a favourite at Fremantle Oval.
He was also… more »
Feb 18, 2010
by Ron Head
Bob Becu was an outstanding ruckman for East Fremantle in the seventies, playing 165 games and figuring prominently in a premiership. Yet he was a reluctant participant in the game in his junior years, and playing league football was the furthest thing from his mind as an early teenager.
After a short spell… more »
Feb 16, 2010
by Ron Head
When Frank Copeman made the trip to Bassendean to try out with Swan Districts in 1962 he had mixed feelings. “It was on the instigation of Billy Walker, another Narembeen boy, that I came down to the big smoke, and I was well aware of the class of cattle Swans had,” he recalled when Footygoss… more »
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