William Henry Ward (16 November 1891 – 21 February 1978) 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 Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

er who played with St Kilda in the

Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition. It includes teams from clubs based in east ...

(VFL).

Family

The son of William Mathew Ward (-1939),Deaths: Ward, ''The Age'', (Thursday, 9 March 1938), p.1.
/ref> and Anne Ward, née Haines, William Henry Ward was born at

Kew, Victoria Kew () is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, found 5 km east from Melbourne's Melbourne central business district, Central Business District. Kew is located within the City of Boroondara Local government areas of ...

on 16 November 1891. He married Jennie May Foster in 1915.

Football

One of nine new players in the team, Ward played his only First XVIII match for St Kilda against Carlton, at Princes park, on 29 July 1911. They were required because many of the regular St Kilda First XVIII players were on strike. The other new players were: Alby Bowtell,

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, Peter Donnelly, Alf Hammond, Otto Opelt, Rowley Smith, and Tom Soutar — and, including that match, and ignoring Harrie Hattam (16 games), Bert Pierce (41 games), and Bill Woodcock (65 games), the very inexperienced team's remaining fifteen players had only played a total of 46 matches.

Death

He died at

Camberwell, Victoria Camberwell ( ) is an inner suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 10 km east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Boroondara local government area. Camberwell recorded a population of 21,965 at the 2021 ...

on 21 February 1978.

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* * 1891 births 1978 deaths Australian rules footballers from Melbourne St Kilda Football Club players People from Kew, Victoria 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1891-stub