Gary Williamson (25 September 1941 – 28 March 2009) 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

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and

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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). A ruckman, Williamson spent four seasons at Richmond, after arriving from

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. He played 15 games in 1961, the most he would play in a single season.AFL Tables: Gary Williamson
/ref> Crossing to South Melbourne in 1965, he would only appear in eight rounds, but it was enough to bring up 50 league games. For the rest of the 1960s and until his retirement in 1978, Williamson played in a total of 205 games for

Wodonga Wodonga (Pallanganmiddang language, Waywurru: ''Wordonga'') is a city on the Victoria (Australia), Victorian side of the border with New South Wales, north-east of Melbourne, Australia. It is located wholly within the boundaries of the City of ...

in the

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(OMFL). He joined Wodonga in 1967 and at the end of his debut season was awarded both the club's "Best and Fairest" award as well as the OMFL's Morris Medal. An achilles injury cost him a spot in Wodonga's 1967 premiership side but in 1969, when he won his second club "Best and Fairest", he was a member of their grand final winning team. He also came close to securing another Morris Medal in 1969, finishing second to Jeff Hemphill. Williamson, who continued to serve Wodonga off the field after his retirement, was named in 2004 as the club's Team of the Century ruckman and two years later was inducted into the OMFL Hall of Fame. Williamson died in 2009.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Williamson, Gary 1941 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) Richmond Football Club players Sydney Swans players Wodonga Football Club players 2009 deaths