Wally Shearer

Wally Shearer
Personal information
Full name Wally Shearer
Born (1918-09-29)29 September 1918
Died 29 May 2000(2000-05-29) (aged 81)
Original team Donald
Height 178 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 70 kg (154 lb)
Position rover
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1941–42 Footscray 20 (18)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1942.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Wally Shearer (29 September 1918 – 29 May 2000) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Shearer initially played several practice matches in 1939 prior to making his VFL debut in round four, 1941.

Shearer won the 1948 and 1951 North Central Football League's best and fairest award, the Feeney Medal and was a former captain-coach of Donald.

Notes

  1. ↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 809. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. ↑ "1941 - TITUS THE WONDER OF FOOTBALL". Weekly Times (Melbourne, Vic. : 1869 - 1954). 14 June 1941. p. 39. Retrieved 4 February 2025.
  3. ↑ "1949 - Donald Working The Double". The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954). 21 April 1949. p. 22. Retrieved 4 February 2025.