{{short description|Australian rules footballer, born 1904}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=September 2015}} {{Infobox AFL biography | name = Wal Williams | image = | fullname = Walter George Williams | birth_date = {{birth date|1904|1|21|df=y}} | birth_place = Scoresby, Victoria | death_date = {{death date and age|1982|8|23|1904|1|21|df=y}} | death_place = Albury, New South Wales | originalteam = Box Hill | height = 180 cm | weight = 75 kg | position = Forward | guernsey = 28 | statsend = 1927 | years1 = 1925–1927 | club1 = {{AFL Haw}} | games_goals1 = 17 (7) | careerhighlights = }}
'''Walter George "Wal" Williams''' (21 January 1904 – 23 August 1982) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).<ref name=encyc>{{cite book |title=The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 |last1=Holmesby|first1=Russell|last2=Main|first2=Jim |year=2009 |edition=8th |isbn=978-1-921496-00-4 |publisher=BAS Publishing |location=Seaford, Victoria}}</ref>
==Family== The son of George James Williams (1867–1956) and Marian Williams (1871–1961), nee Lording, Walter George Williams was born in Scoresby, Victoria in January 1904.{{cn|date=October 2024}}
==Football== Williams commenced his football career at Box Hill. When Hawthorn joined the VFL for the 1925 VFL season, Williams was recruited to the club.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2115664 |title=ST. KILDA STRIKES FORM. |newspaper=The Argus |location=Melbourne |date=11 May 1925 |page=17}}</ref> He made his debut in round 2 and played four games before being suspended for the rest of the season for abusing an umpire.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2123931 |title=PLAYER DISQUALIFIED. |newspaper=The Argus |location=Melbourne |date=5 June 1925 |page=5}}</ref> He played regularly in 1926 and the first game of 1927 before being dropped from the team.
==Later life== In December 1927, Walter Williams married Mary McPherson Crombie and they lived in Myrtleford before moving to Albury, where they lived until Williams' death in 1982.{{cn|date=October 2024}}
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== External links == *{{AFL Tables|ref=W/Wal_Williams.html}}
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