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Gordon Waters (27 January 1914 – 15 May 1983) was an
Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...
er who played with Hawthorn in the
Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition. It includes teams from clubs based in east ...
(VFL). Initially from Wedderburn, Waters was signed He tried out at Footscray and played in some trial games before being offered a place on the Melbourne reserves list. Waters and fellow teammate Ken Feltscheer were part of a player swap for Bert Chandler in 1937. The rugged defender was give 3 votes by the Argus sportswriter for his game against in 1938.


1937 Best First-Year Players

In September 1937, ''The Argus'' selected Waters in its team of 1937's first-year players.Football Season's Many Good Recruits, ''The Argus'', (Tuesday, 7 September 1937), p.14.
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* * 1914 births 1983 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Hawthorn Football Club players 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1914-stub