Kenneth H. Walker (17 October 1919 – 25 July 2013) 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 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).
Walker, a key position player, played 109 games for St Kilda, from 1938 to 1945. He won St Kilda's
Best and fairest
In Australian sport, the best and fairest award recognises the player(s) adjudged to have had the best performance in a game or over a season for a given sporting club or competition. The awards are sometimes dependent on not receiving a suspensi ...
award back to back in 1942 and 1943.
He was playing coach of
Burnie in 1946, then coached
Launceston to three successive grand finals, which were all lost to rival
North Launceston.
In 1950 and 1951, Walker was captain-coach of
Benalla.
Walker was later elected as the inaugural President of the Benalla Junior Football League in 1953.
For many years, Walker was part of the ground staff at the
Moorabbin Oval.
References
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1950 - Benalla FC team photo
1919 births
2013 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Bendigo
Trevor Barker Award winners
St Kilda Football Club players
Burnie Football Club players
Preston Football Club (VFA) players
Benalla Football Club players
Launceston Football Club players
Launceston Football Club coaches
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