Walter Gerald "Joe" Evans (20 April 1920 – 17 August 2013) 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

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in the

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(VFL). A half forward from Brunswick City, Joe played 21 games between 1940 and 1942 before his football career was ended by a bad knee injury.Maplestone, Michael (1988). Those Magnificent Men. York Press. p. 81.

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