William Tymms (16 August 1903 – 9 June 1989) was an

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

er who played with St Kilda and

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

in the

Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...

(VFL). Tymms started his career at St Kilda, where he spent two seasons.AFL Tables: Bill Tymms
/ref> He played for

Prahran Prahran (), also pronounced colloquially as Pran, is an inner suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, 5 km south-east of Melbourne's Melbourne central business district, Central Business District, located within the City ...

in 1924, then made his way to Melbourne and was a half-back flanker in their 1926 premiership team. Best known as a full-back, Tymms represented the VFL five times during his career. He went into football administration after retiring, serving as secretary of the

Richmond Football Club The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed the Tigers, is an Australian rules football team playing in the Australian Football League (AFL). Between its inception in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond in 1885 and 1907, the club competed in the Victo ...

from 1955 to 1962.''

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"Tymms Resigns as Secretary"
20 September 1962, p. 18

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* 1903 births 1989 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) St Kilda Football Club players Melbourne Football Club players Prahran Football Club players Richmond Football Club administrators Melbourne Football Club Premiership players One-time VFL/AFL Premiership players {{AFL-bio-1903-stub