BIO

Wartime competition 1942-1944
Norwood-North games: 8
Norwood-North goals: 2

Billy Winward was a young Victorian follower who had his moments with Norwood-North in the first season of the World War II patriotic competition.

Born on 9 November 1920, Billy, at 185 cm and 77 kg, looked the part while kicking two goals in eight matches. Sadly, Norwood-North bombed out in the first semi-final, going down to Glenelg-West by 31 points, 13.23 to 9.11, before an Adelaide Oval crowd of 12,461.

Billy returned home and played 15 games for the Richmond reserves in 1943-1944.  He moved to Camberwell in the Victorian Football Association in 1945 and played one senior game for St Kilda in the Victorian Football League in 1946.  He was 94 when he died on 4 June 2015.

P. Robins, G. Adams October 2026