fullname heightweight death_date death_place years birth_place clubs statsend coachyears originalteam birth_date coachclubs article_title name
wallace frances carter 175 ; kg & nbsp ; cm / 72 & nbsp 6 june 2001 melbourne 1929-1940 carlton , victoria north melbourne 1963 1940 1948-1953 1954-1957 1958-1962 balmain 4 february 1909 north melbourne north melbourne williamstown north melbourne wally carter
 wally carter
wally carter

wallace frances `` wally '' carter -lrb- 4 february 1909 - 6 june 2001 -rrb- was an australian rules footballer who played for and coached north melbourne in the victorian football league -lrb- vfl -rrb- .
carter made his debut for north melbourne in 1929 and played with the club for over a decade , winning the inaugural syd barker medal for their best and fairest player in 1937 .
towards the end of the 1940 season he acted as caretaker coach but with little success .
it was his last season as a player but he would return to the club in 1948 as coach .
he acted as coach from 1948 to 1953 , and became the first north melbourne coach to lead the club to a vfl grand final .
in 1954 , carter signed to coach victorian football association club williamstown .
he demanded his players train to the same standard as his former vfl club , and led the club into its most successful era .
under carter 's four-year tenure , williamstown won consecutive premierships in 1954 , 1955 and 1956 , and was the unbeaten minor premier in 1957 before being eliminated from the finals in straight sets .
he was coach of the vfa representative team in 1957 .
carter returned to coach north melbourne again from 1958 to 1962 .
during this time he became the first ever person to coach over 200 games for north melbourne .
he then coached brunswick , in 1963 and 1964 .
he was inducted into the north melbourne hall of fame in 2002 .
he was named as coach of the williamstown team of the century in 2003 , and was an inaugural inductee in the williamstown hall of fame in 2014 .
