Gordon Waters (27 January 1914 – 15 May 1983) was an
Australian rules football
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er who played with
Hawthorn
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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).
Initially from Wedderburn, Waters was signed He tried out at Footscray and played in some trial games before being offered a place on the Melbourne reserves list.
Waters and fellow teammate
Ken Feltscheer
Ken Feltscheer (9 June 1915 – 25 December 2017) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne and Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He turned 100 in June 2015 and died on 25 December 2017 at the age of 102.
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were part of a player swap for
Bert Chandler in 1937.
The rugged defender was give 3 votes by the Argus sportswriter for his game against in 1938.
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1914 births
1983 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Hawthorn Football Club players
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