Wally Carter was an Australian rules footballer who played for and coached North Melbourne

North Melbourne Football Club

The North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Kangaroos, is the fourth oldest Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League and is one of the oldest sporting clubs in Australia and the world...

 in the VFL

Australian Football League

The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...

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Carter made his debut for North Melbourne in 1929 and played with the club for over a decade, winning the inaugural Syd Barker Medal

Syd Barker Medal

The Syd Barker Medal is awarded to the North Melbourne Football Club player who has been judged the best and fairest of the footy season. The award has been given out continuously since 1937. Before then it was known as the Syd Barker Memorial Trophy....

for their best and fairest player in 1937. Towards the end of the 1940 season he acted as caretaker coach but failed to get a victory. It was his last season as a player but he would return to the club in 1948 as coach. He acted as coach from 1948 to 1953 and again from 1958 to 1962. During this time he became the first ever person to coach over 200 games for North Melbourne and their first ever Grand Final coach.

He was inducted into the North Melbourne Hall of Fame in 2002

External links

• Hall of Fame article