Tim Evans (footballer)

Last updated

Tim Evans
Personal information
Date of birth (1953-08-13) 13 August 1953 (age 70)
Place of birth Tasmania
Original team(s) Penguin (NWFU)
Height 189 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight 96 kg (212 lb)
Position(s) Full forward, half back
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
1971–1974 Geelong 59 (26)
1975–1986 Port Adelaide 230 (993) [1]
Total289 (1019)
Representative team honours
YearsTeamGames (Goals)
1979–1983 South Australia 10 (41)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1986.
Career highlights

Club

Representative

Honours

Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Tim Evans (born 13 August 1953) is a former Australian rules football player who played for Port Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Contents

Early life

Originally from Tasmania, Evans played for Penguin Football Club in the North West Football Union. [2]

Geelong (1971–1974)

Evans was recruited by Geelong in 1971, where he spent four seasons at half back.

Port Adelaide (1975–1986)

In 1975, he joined Port Adelaide and went on to play 230 games for the club. He won the club's goalkicking with 64 that year.

After a season used in defence, he was moved to full forward in 1977 by coach John Cahill and was an immediate success, leading the league with 88 goals, including seven in Port Adelaide's 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 league's inaugural Ken Farmer Medal in 1981 kicking 98 for the season.

Evans retired at the end of the 1986 season. He had kicked 993 goals, the second highest total in SANFL history behind North Adelaide's Ken Farmer (who kicked 1,417 between 1929 and 1941), and 1,019 in his career, the 12th highest total in elite Australian rules football.

Evans also kicked 41 goals in 10 games for South Australia in interstate football, and a further 51 goals in 18 games in pre-season and night series competition: if these are included, Evans kicked a total of 1,111 goals in his senior career, the ninth highest total in elite Australian rules football.

He played in Port Adelaide's 1977 and 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, and also in the losing 1984 Grand Final.

Evans topped the SANFL's goalkicking six times, and was Port's leading goalkicker ten times.

Honours

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 (for having played 200 games) and was selected at full forward in Port Adelaide's Greatest Team of players from 1870–2000.

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Malcolm Blight</span> Australian rules footballer, born 1950

Malcolm Jack Blight AM is a former Australian rules footballer who played for and coached the North Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and Woodville Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). He also coached the Geelong Football Club, Adelaide Football Club and St Kilda Football Club.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">South Australian National Football League</span> Australian rules football competition

The South Australian National Football League, or SANFL, is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia. It is also the state's governing body for the sport.

Mark Melville Williams is a former Australian rules football player and coach. As a player, Williams represented West Adelaide and Port Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), as well as Collingwood and Brisbane Bears in the Australian Football League (AFL), from the 1970s to the 1990s.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Warren Tredrea</span> Australian rules footballer, born 1978

Warren Gary Tredrea is a former Australian Rules Footballer with the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL) and former Weekday Sports Presenter on Nine News Adelaide. Since his retirement from football, he has become a sports media personality featuring on Nine News Adelaide, 3AW, FiveAA and in The Advertiser newspaper.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tony Modra</span> Australian rules footballer, born 1969

Anthony Dale Modra is a former Australian rules footballer who represented Adelaide and Fremantle in the Australian Football League (AFL) and West Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). Known for his spectacular marking ability in the full-forward position, Modra had the physical strength and size to match the best opposition full-backs in the competition. As of 2023, he is the only Adelaide player to kick more than 100 goals in a season, achieving the feat in 1993 by registering 129 goals for the year.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Shaun Burgoyne</span> Australian rules footballer, born 1982

Shaun Playford Burgoyne is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Port Adelaide Football Club in the SANFL, and Port Adelaide and Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Brett Ebert</span> Australian rules footballer, born 1983

Brett Ebert is a former Australian rules footballer. He is the son of Port Adelaide legend Russell Ebert and cousin of Port Adelaide's Brad Ebert.

Bryan Beinke is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.

Scott Lyall Hodges is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL) and the Port Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). Hodges kicked 671 goals in his 167-game SANFL career and another 100 goals in 38 games with Adelaide. He also kicked nine goals in three games representing South Australia in State of Origin football, and 19 goals in 15 night series matches for Port Adelaide.

Stephen Scott Kernahan is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL) and for the Glenelg Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). He also played 16 State of Origin games for South Australia and gained selection as an All-Australian five times. He later served for six years as president of the Carlton Football Club.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jack Oatey</span> Australian rules footballer, born 1920

Jack Oatey was an Australian rules football player and coach.

Dennis Keith "Fred" Phillis is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Glenelg Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL).

Kym Hodgeman is a former Australian rules footballer best known for his playing career with Glenelg in the SANFL from 1974 - 1980 & secondly for a 5 year stint with North Melbourne in the Australian Football League (VFL) from 1981 - 1985, before he returned to Glenelg 1986 where tasted a premiership success, playing again with the Tigers until his retirement in 1990.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ken Farmer</span> Australian rules footballer and coach

Kenneth William George Farmer was an Australian rules footballer who played for the North Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL).

Peter Gareth Carey is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Glenelg Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) from 1971 to 1988.

Bruce Norman Lindner is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club and Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is the nephew of legendary North Adelaide footballer Don Lindner.

Rick Davies is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Sturt and South Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Nicknamed the "Jumbo Prince", Davies played a total of 390 games throughout his career (317 for Sturt, 33 for South Adelaide, 20 for Hawthorn, and 20 State Games for South Australia. Though not tall for a ruckman at only 188 cm, Davies was known for his strong marking and body strength which he used to great effect against opponents who were often taller and heavier than him.

Keith A. Thomas is a former Australian rules football player and administrator who played with Norwood in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Between 2011 and 2020 he was the chief executive officer of the Port Adelaide Football Club.

Adam Scott Richardson is a former Australian rules footballer who played for West Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and Adelaide in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Roger Gordon Luders is a retired Australian Rules Football player who played his entire league career with the West Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) from 1978 until his retirement in 1987. When playing for West Adelaide, Luders wore number 29.

References

  1. ↑ These totals refer to premiership matches (home-and-away and finals matches) only.
  2. ↑ Devaney, J. "Tim Evans (Geelong and Port Adelaide)". Retrieved 13 October 2010.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.