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Bill McNamara
Australian rules footballer
William Healy McNamara (8 June 1876 – 21 November 1959)[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played for Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[2]
| Bill McNamara | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||
| Full name | William Healy McNamara | ||
| Nickname(s) | Snowy | ||
| Date of birth | 8 June 1876 | ||
| Place of birth | Port Fairy, Victoria | ||
| Date of death | 21 November 1959(1959-11-21) (aged 83) | ||
| Place of death | Parkville, Victoria | ||
| Original team(s) | Brunswick | ||
| Position(s) | Wingman | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1899–1904 | Carlton | 69 (8) | |
| Umpiring career | |||
| Years | League | Role | Games |
| 1905–1908 | VFL | Field umpire | 3 |
| 1905–1915 | VFL | Boundary umpire | 101 |
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1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1904. | |||
| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
One of the ten children of John Joseph McNamara (1843-1921),[3] and, Catherine Mary McNamara (1848-1914), née Enright,[4] William Healy McNamara was born at Port Fairy, Victoria on 8 June 1876.[1]
He married Honorah Teresa Barrett (1876-1937) in 1900.[5][6] They had six children; one of whom, William Patrick McNamara (1912–1983), played VFL football for both Melbourne and South Melbourne.
McNamara was a wingman at Carlton for six seasons;[7] he left the club after not being picked for the 1904 finals.[8] As a result, he missed out on playing in the successful team which won three successive premierships from 1906 to 1908.
He was, also, a VFL umpire; officiating in 104 games, mostly as a boundary umpire. He was on the boundary in the 1910 VFL Grand Final.[9]
He died at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria on 21 November 1959.[10]
- Blueseum.
- Holmesby & Main, 2014.
- Birth Deaths and Marriages Victoria Registration No.7096/1900.
- Carlton Football Team, The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser, (Wednesday, 29 July 1903), p.283: McNamara is third from the left, back row.
- "Player-umpires". AFL Umpires Association. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
- Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2014), The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.), Melbourne, Victoria: Bas Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5
- William Healy McNamara, at Find a Grave (photograph of headstone).
- Bill's Barracker: Carlton Forever, The (Melbourne) Herald, (Friday, 29 April 1927), p.14.
- Trade and Footy "do's", The Argus, (Monday, 11 June 1956), p.8.
- Bill McNamara's playing statistics from AFL Tables
- Bill McNamara at AustralianFootball.com
- Bill McNamara, at Blueseum.