Australian Football

A great clubman, Perth rover Dick Walker played 226 league games for the Redlegs between 1952 and 1964. He also made 10 interstate appearances and kicked 11 goals for Western Australia. Renowned for his cleverness, he won club fairest-and-best awards in 1955 and 1956, and was runner-up in 1963. He was one of the best players afield in Perth’s 1955 Grand Final win over East Fremantle. 

Always dangerous when resting in the forward lines, he topped his club’s goal-kicking list in 1953 with 44 goals, and amassed a total of 413 over the course of his career. During the 1961 season he took over as Redlegs captain-coach for a time; he also captained the side the following year, but had retired by the time Perth re-emerged as a force under Mal Atwell in the mid-1960s.

Author - John Devaney