years clubs birth_place position sooyears name statsend originalteam birth_date sooteams article_title heightweight
1971 -- 1974 1975 -- 1986 geelong port adelaide tasmania full forward , half back 1979-1982 tim evans 1986 penguin -lrb- nwfu -rrb- 13 august 1953 south australia tim evans
 189 cm / 96 kg
tim evans

tim evans -lrb- born 13 august 1953 in tasmania -rrb- is a former australian rules football player who played for port adelaide in the south australian national football league -lrb- sanfl -rrb- and in the victorian football league -lrb- vfl -rrb- .
originally from tasmania , evans played for penguin football club in the north west football union before being recruited by geelong in 1971 , where he spent four seasons at half back .
in 1975 he joined port adelaide and went on to play 248 games for the club .
initially used in defense , he was moved to full forward in 1977 by coach john cahill and was an immediate success leading the league with 87 goals , including 7 in the 1977 sanfl grand final win over glenelg .
he repeated the performance in 1978 kicking 90 for the season .
evans first kicked over 100 goals in 1980 when he kicked a then sanfl record 146 goals , and would win the leagues inaugural ken farmer medal in 1981 kicking 98 for the season .
evans went on to kick 1,044 goals before his retirement at the end of the 1986 season , the second highest total in sanfl history behind north adelaide 's ken farmer who kicked 1,419 between 1929 and 1941 .
he also kicked 25 goals in seven games for south australia in interstate football .
tim evans played port adelaide 's 1977 , 1979-81 premiership teams as well as playing full back in the losing 1976 grand final to sturt in front of the sanfl record crowd of 66,897 at football park .
evans topped the sanfl 's goalkicking six times and was port 's leading goalkicker ten times .
he was an inaugural inductee into the south australian football hall of fame in 2002 and was inducted into the tasmanian football hall of fame in 2008 .
tim evans is also a port adelaide life member , an sanfl player life member -lrb- for having played 200 games -rrb- and was selected at full forward in port adelaide 's greatest team of players from 1870-2000 .
