Claim: Alby Linton, an Australian rules footballer who played for Footscray Football Club (founded in 1877), but in 1953 he left Footscray and joined Williamstown in the VFA.
Evidence: Albert Charles Linton (18 November 1926 – 11 April 2010) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and Williamstown in the Victorian Football Association (VFA). In 1953 he left Footscray and joined Williamstown in the VFA, becoming a member of three premiership teams during the 1950s. The Western Bulldogs (formerly the Footscray Football Club) are a professional Australian Rules Football club that compete in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition. Founded in 1877 in Footscray, an inner-western suburb of Melbourne, the club won nine premierships in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) before gaining entry to the Victorian Football League (since renamed the AFL) in 1925.