Peter Walker (12 June 1942 – 8 July 2010) was an
Australian rules footballer who played with
Geelong 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) during the 1960s.
Family
His grandson
Josh Walker currently plays for .
Football
A centre-half back who was originally from
Beeac
Beeac is a town in the Western District of Victoria, Australia. The town is located on the shore of the hyper-saline Lake Beeac in the Colac Otway Shire local government area, 160 kilometres southwest of the state capital, Melbourne. At the ...
, Walker won the
Carji Greeves Medal
The Carji Greeves Medal is a name given in recent decades to an Australian rules football award given to the player(s) adjudged best and fairest for the Geelong Football Club for the season.
The voting system has changed a number of times. ...
for Geelong's best and fairest player in 1965 and represented Victoria in nine interstate matches.
WHERE ARE THEY: Geelong Cat champion Peter Walker
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On 6 July 1963 he was a member of the Geelong team that were comprehensively and unexpectedly beaten by Fitzroy, 9.13 (67) to 3.13 (31) in the 1963 Miracle Match
The 1963 Miracle Match was an Australian rules football game contested in the second half of the 1963 VFL season home-and-away competition’s round 10 "split round" matches.
The match, between the Fitzroy Football Club and the Geelong Fo ...
.
See also
* 1963 Miracle Match
The 1963 Miracle Match was an Australian rules football game contested in the second half of the 1963 VFL season home-and-away competition’s round 10 "split round" matches.
The match, between the Fitzroy Football Club and the Geelong Fo ...
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1942 births
2010 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Geelong Football Club players
Geelong Football Club Premiership players
Carji Greeves Medal winners
One-time VFL/AFL Premiership players
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