Fos Williams

Fos Williams
Personal information
Nickname(s)	Fos
Date of birth	(1922-02-21)21 February 1922
Place of birth	Quorn, South Australia
Date of death	1 September 2001(2001-09-01) (aged 79)
Place of death	Novar Gardens, South Australia
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1946–1949	West Adelaide	054 (112)
1950–1958	Port Adelaide	151 (263)
Total		205 (375)
Representative team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
1950–1958	S. Aust.	34 (60)
1955–1969	S. Aust. (coach)	45 (24-21-0) 53.33%
Coaching career
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
1950–58, 62–73 1960 1974–1978	Port Adelaide South Adelaide West Adelaide	447 (333–112–2) 018 000(3–15–0) 109 00(42–67–0) 574 (378–194–2) 65.85%
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1978.
Career highlights
Club 6x Port Adelaide premiership player: (1951, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958) 2x Port Adelaide best & fairest: (1950, 1955) 1x West Adelaide premiership player: (1947) 3x Port Adelaide leading goalkicker: (1950, 1951, 1955) 5AD Footballer of the Year: 1958 Representative 34 games as a player for South Australia 45 games as coach for South Australia 5x South Australia captain: (1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958) Simpson Medalist 1955 (Best player, WA v SA) Coaching 9x Port Adelaide premiership coach: (1951, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1962, 1963, 1965) Honours Australian Football Hall of Fame Inaugural Inductee: (1996) South Australian Football Hall of Fame Inaugural Inductee: (2002) SANFL Life Member The Advertiser Player of the Year: 1950, 1955 Port Adelaide Life Member Port Adelaide 'Greatest Team': 2001 (Captain-Coach)

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Foster Neil "Fos" Williams AM (21 February 1922 – 1 September 2001) was a leading Australian rules footballer who played for and coached the Port Adelaide and West Adelaide Football Clubs and coached South Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) in a career spanning 1946–1978. He also played 34 interstate games for South Australia, captaining the team from 1954–1958 and he coached the team in 45 games from 1955–1969.

Born in the town of Quorn, located in the Flinders Ranges and some 39 km north-east of Port Augusta, the son of Melville George Williams and Emma Otellia Williams (née McMillan). Williams had a late start to football due to World War II. He enlisted in the Australian Army on 5 March 1942, serving as a signalman before transferring to the Royal Australian Navy on 31 March 1943, where he served as a telegrapher on the corvette HMAS Kiama until his discharge on 6 June 1946.

Williams began his league career in 1946, aged 24 with West Adelaide. He was the 609th player selected to play for West and made his league debut on 20 July 1946. Williams played 54 games for West Adelaide, including playing as a rover in their victorious 1947 Grand Final against Norwood at the Adelaide Oval. Williams first gained state selection for South Australia while with West Adelaide and also kicked 112 goals for the club until the end of 1949.