Hendrick Stanbury "Taffy" Waye (13 December 1877 – 7 July 1961) 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 Sturt in the

South Australian Football Association The South Australian National Football League, or SANFL ( or ''S-A-N-F-L''), is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia. It is also the state's governing body for the sport. Originally formed as the ...

(SAFA) during the early 1900s. Waye played a total of 71 games for Sturt from his debut in 1902 to his last season in 1910. Strong around the ruck and in front of goal, Waye won the

Magarey Medal The Magarey Medal is an Australian rules football honour awarded annually since 1898 to the fairest and most brilliant player in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), as judged by field umpires. The award was created by Willia ...

in 1903. He also topped his club's goalkicking five times during his career. At interstate level he represented South Australia regularly, appearing in a total of eight games. He occupies a

forward pocket In the sport of Australian rules football, each of the eighteen players in a team is assigned to a particular named position on the field of play. These positions describe both the player's main role and by implication their location on the gro ...

in Sturt's official "Team of the Century". On 14 August 2011, Waye was selected in the

Southern Football League The Southern League is a men's football competition featuring semi-professional clubs from the South and Midlands of England. Together with the Isthmian League and the Northern Premier League it forms levels seven and eight of the English fo ...

's 125th anniversary team in the forward pocket and second ruck due to his service for the

Willunga Football Club The Willunga Football Club is an Australian rules football club first formed on 29 May 1874, making it the second oldest constituted football club in South Australia behind Port Adelaide. History Willunga was an inaugural member of the Sou ...

. Waye was the only player selected in both the SFL's Greatest Team and Greatest Exports Team. Taffy Waye was known to ride 25 miles on horseback from Willunga to

Unley Unley is an inner-southern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, within the City of Unley. The suburb is the home of the Sturt Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). Unley neighbours Adelaide Park Lands, Fullar ...

to train and play for Sturt in 1903, regularly filling in for Willunga between league games at Sturt. On 26 July 2015, Taffy Waye was inducted into the Southern Football League Hall of Fame in recognition of his service as a player within that league.

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SFL 125 Year Team
{{DEFAULTSORT:Waye, Hendrick 1877 births Magarey Medal winners Sturt Football Club players Australian rules footballers from South Australia Southern Football League (South Australia) players Australian military personnel of World War I People from Willunga, South Australia 1961 deaths