Samfuri:Infobox AFL biography Walter John "Wally" Price (2 Yuni 1926 - 17 Yuni 2021) ya kasance dan wasan kwallon kafa na Australiya wanda ya buga wa kungiyar kwallon kafa ta West Perth a Kungiyar kwallon kafa ta Yammacin Australiya (WANFL). An haife shi a Margaret River, Yammacin Ostiraliya, Price ya buga wasanni 256 a kulob din tsakanin 1942 da 1954, galibi a matsayin aljihu na baya. Bayan ya taka leda a gasar Firimiya a shekarar 1942, 1949, da 1951, ya kuma buga wasanni 12 a kasashen Yammacin Australia, kuma an shigar da shi cikin Hall of Fame na Kwallon Kafa na Yammacin Australiya a shekarar 2010.

An haifi Price a Margaret River, Yammacin Ostiraliya, na uku na 'ya'ya maza biyar (kuma na farko da aka haifa a Ostiraliya) wanda aka haifa ga iyayen ƙaura na Ingila.[1][2] Ɗaya daga cikin 'yan uwansa, Harry Price, ya buga wa Claremont wasa, kuma ya wakilci Yammacin Australia a kwallon kafa da wasan kurket.[3] Da farko yana wasa a cikin Metropolitan Junior Football Association (MJFA), Price ya fara buga wa West Perth wasa a gasar da aka ƙuntata shekaru a shekarar 1942, yana da shekaru 16, kuma ya taka leda a firaministan a kakar wasa ta farko.[4] Ya fara buga wa Yammacin Australia wasa a gasar Carnival ta kwallon kafa ta Australia ta 1947, wanda aka gudanar a Hobart, kuma zai ci gaba da buga wasanni 12 ga jihar, gami da Carnival na 1953, wanda aka gudanar da shi a Adelaide.[5] Da yake wasa kusan kawai a matsayin aljihu na baya, Price ya taka leda a bangarorin firaminista tare da West Perth a 1949 da 1951, kuma an ba shi lambar yabo ta Breckler a matsayin dan wasan da ya fi dacewa a kulob din a lokacin kakar 1952.[6]

An sanya Price memba na rayuwa na West Perth Football Club a shekara ta 1954, kuma Stan Heal ya gabatar da lambar yabo.[7] A ƙarshen kakar 1954, Price ya bar West Perth don karɓar matsayi a matsayin kyaftin-kocin Griffith Football Club a Kungiyar Kwallon Kafa ta Kudu maso Yamma (SWDFL), wanda ke zaune a Griffith, New South Wales . A lokacin da ya dawo Yammacin Ostiraliya, an nada shi kocin kungiyar ajiyar West Perth, matsayin da ya rike na tsawon shekaru biyu, daga 1958 zuwa 1959. Farashin ya shiga kwamitin WANFL a shekarar 1960, yana aiki a matsayin umpire a wasannin kwallon kafa na kasar na tsawon shekaru hudu.[4] Gabaɗaya, Farashin ya buga wasanni 256 ga West Perth, a lokacin rikodin kulob din, kuma ya zira kwallaye huɗu.[8] A watan Oktoba na shekara ta 2000, an sanya sunan Price a cikin aljihun baya a cikin "Team of the Century" na West Perth.[9] An shigar da shi cikin Hall of Fame na Kwallon Kafa na Yammacin Australia a watan Maris na shekara ta 2010.[4] Bayan mutuwar Spike Pola a watan Janairun 2012, Price shine mafi tsufa a rayuwar West Perth.[10]

Price ya mutu a ranar 17 ga Yuni 2021, yana da shekaru 95. Wikimedia Commons on Wally Price

  1. Hall of Fame Inductees – wafootball.com.au. Retrieved 16 January 2012.
  2. Townsend, John (2012).Falcons' pommy promo impresses Archived 2012-10-19 at the Wayback MachineThe West Australian online. Published 17 August 2012. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
  3. SPORTING FAMILYThe West Australian. Published 30 June 1953. Retrieved 18 August 2012.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 2010 Hall of Fame inductees – wafc.com.au. Published 11 March 2010. Retrieved 9 February 2011.
  5. State games 1951–2010 – wafootball.com.au. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
  6. West Perth Football Club Medallists Archived 2012-10-14 at the Wayback Machine – West Perth Football Club (Inc). Retrieved from iinet.net.au, 3 February 2012.
  7. West Perth Honours Wally PriceThe West Australian. Published Thursday, 11 March 1954. Retrieved from Trove, 9 February 2012.
  8. Wally Price (West Perth) Archived 2008-02-09 at the Wayback Machine – FullPointsFooty. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
  9. West Perth Official 'Team of the Century' Archived 2012-01-11 at the Wayback Machine – FullPointsFooty. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
  10. Cowan, Sean (2012). Pola last link with great West Perth team Archived 2012-07-07 at Archive.todayThe West Australian. Published 10 January 2012. Retrieved 9 February 2012.

Samfuri:West Perth Football Club Team of the Century