Bill McNamara

Bill McNamara
Personal information
Full name	William Healy McNamara
Nickname(s)	Snowy
Date of birth	8 June 1876
Place of birth	Port Fairy, Victoria
Date of death	21 November 1959(1959-11-21) (aged 83)
Place of death	Parkville, Victoria
Original team(s)	Brunswick
Position(s)	Wingman
Playing career^1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1899–1904	Carlton	69 (8)
Umpiring career
Years	League	Role	Games
1905–1908	VFL	Field umpire	3
1905–1915	VFL	Boundary umpire	101
^1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1904.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

William Healy McNamara (8 June 1876 – 21 November 1959)[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played for Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[2]

Family

One of the ten children of John Joseph McNamara (1843-1921),[3] and, Catherine Mary McNamara (1848-1914), née Enright,[4] William Healy McNamara was born at Port Fairy, Victoria on 8 June 1876.[1]

He married Honorah Teresa Barrett (1876-1937) in 1900.[5][6] They had six children; one of whom, William Patrick McNamara (1912–1983), played VFL football for both Melbourne and South Melbourne.

Football

McNamara was a wingman at Carlton for six seasons;[7] he left the club after not being picked for the 1904 finals.[8] As a result, he missed out on playing in the successful team which won three successive premierships from 1906 to 1908.

Umpire

He was, also, a VFL umpire; officiating in 104 games, mostly as a boundary umpire. He was on the boundary in the 1910 VFL Grand Final.[9]

Death

He died at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria on 21 November 1959.[10]

Notes

1. Blueseum.
2. Holmesby & Main, 2014.
3. Deaths: McNamara, The Argus, (Tuesday, 19 July 1921), p.1.
4. Deaths: McNamara, The Argus, (Monday, 2 November 1914), p.1.
5. Birth Deaths and Marriages Victoria Registration No.7096/1900.
6. Deaths: McNamara, The Age, (Monday, 3 May 1937), p.1.
7. Carlton Football Team, The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser, (Wednesday, 29 July 1903), p.283: McNamara is third from the left, back row.
8. De Bolfo, Tony, "“Mac” - the Man who backed Jack", carltonfc.com.au, 29 October 2012.
9. "Player-umpires". AFL Umpires Association. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
10. Deaths: McNamara, The Age, (Monday, 23 November 1959), p.16.

References

• Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2014), The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.), Melbourne, Victoria: Bas Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5
• William Healy McNamara, at Find a Grave (photograph of headstone).
• Bill's Barracker: Carlton Forever, The (Melbourne) Herald, (Friday, 29 April 1927), p.14.
• Trade and Footy "do's", The Argus, (Monday, 11 June 1956), p.8.

External links

• Bill McNamara's playing statistics from AFL Tables
• Bill McNamara at AustralianFootball.com
• Bill McNamara, at Blueseum.