Bill Woods
Personal information
Full name William Woods
Date of birth (1890-08-31)31 August 1890
Place of birth Portarlington, Victoria
Date of death 1972
Place of death Heidelberg, Victoria
Original team(s) Ashby
Height 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight 54 kg (119 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1909 Geelong 2 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1909.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Bill Woods (born 31 August 1890) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Family

The son of William Woods, a farmer, and Isabella Woods, née Cornell, William Woods was born at Portarlington, Victoria on 31 August 1890.[2]

He married Linda Barbara "Mardi" Allen (1889-1991) on 21 August 1915.[3] They had one child, a daughter.

Military service

He enlisted in the First AIF in 1915, served overseas, sustained a gunshot wound to the head in action in France in 1916, and returned to Australia in 1919.

Death

He died at Heidelberg, Victoria in 1972.

Notes

  1. Holmesby & Main (2014), p.971.
  2. Note that the Argus football correspondent, "Old Boy" (), (mistakenly) states that he was the brother of the former Geelong footballer, Ike Woods. This is clearly wrong; they each had entirely different parents.
  3. Portarlington, The Geelong Advertiser, (Tuesday, 24 August 1915), p.5.

References

  • Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  • World War One Embarkation Roll: Private William Woods (3654), collection of the Australian War Memorial.
  • World War One Nominal Roll: Private William Woods (3654), collection of the Australian War Memorial.
  • World War One Service Record: Private William Woods (3654), National Archives of Australia.
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