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Key Facts

Full name
William Morrow

Known as
Bill Morrow

Born
5 October 1928

Died
4 October 2002 (aged 73)

Age at first & last AFL game
First game: 24y 209d
Last game: 24y 279d

Height and weight
Height: 183 cm
Weight: 76 kg

Senior clubs
Prahran; Melbourne

Jumper numbers
Melbourne: 24

Recruited from
Prahran (1953); Melbourne (1954)

Bill Morrow

Advanced stats
Club
League
Career span
Games
Goals
Avg
Win %
AKI
AHB
AMK
BV
PrahranVFA1946-1952, 1954-1957————————
MelbourneV/AFL1953640.6717%———0
Total1946-1957640.67—————

AFL: 6,315th player to appear, 9,531st most games played, 6,776th most goals kickedMelbourne: 738th player to appear, 921st most games played, 630th most goals kicked

After spending the 1945 season with the club's seconds, Bill Morrow made his senior VFA debut for Prahran as a 17-year-old in the following year. A tall, strong marking, aggressively dynamic footballer, he played most of his 167 games for the Two Blues as a centre half forward. The undoubted highlight of his career came in 1951 when he helped his side to a nine-point Grand Final triumph over Port Melbourne giving Prahran its first flag since 1937, and only its second ever.

Morrow spent the 1953 season with Melbourne where he played six senior VFL games and kicked four goals. He resumed with the Two Blues in 1954 and continued playing until the end of the 1957 season. A VFA representative player against South Australia in Adelaide in 1951, Bill Morrow was Prahran's leading goal kicker the following season with 36 goals. In 2003 he was named as centre half forward in the Two Blues' official 'Team of the Century'.

Author - John Devaney

Sources

Full Points Footy Publications

Footnotes

* Behinds calculated from the 1965 season on.
+ Score at the end of extra time.