Roy West | |
Fullname: | Roy West |
Birth Date: | 31 March 1941 |
Death Place: | Ballarat, Victoria |
Originalteam: | Great Western |
Height: | 185 cm |
Weight: | 81 kg |
Position: | Fullback |
Guernsey: | 31 |
Statsend: | 1967 |
Repstatsend: | 1963 |
Years1: | 1961–64; 1966–67 |
Games Goals1: | 108 (1) |
Sooyears1: | 1962–1963 |
Sooteam1: | Victoria |
Soogames Goals1: | 2 (0) |
Careerhighlights: |
Roy West (31 March 1941 – 19 November 2011) was an Australian rules footballer for the Geelong Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1960s.
West was a fullback and won the 1961 Carji Greeves Medal for Geelong's best and fairest player.
On 6 July 1963 he was a member of the Geelong team that were comprehensively and unexpectedly beaten by Fitzroy, 9.13 (67) to 3.13 (31) in the 1963 Miracle Match. He was a premiership player in 1963 and represented Victoria at interstate football.
Following a year-long battle with lung cancer, West died in a Ballarat hospital on 19 November 2011, aged 70.[1]