Barry Round

Barry Round
Personal information
Full name Barry Round
Date of birth (1950-01-26) 26 January 1950
Height/Weight 193 cm (6 ft 4 in) / 108 kg (17 st 0 lb)
Position(s) Ruck
Playing career
Years Club Games (Goals)
1968–75
1976–1985
1986–91		 Footscray
Sydney
Williamstown		 135 (136)
193 (157)
110 (103)
Representative team honours
Years Team Games (Goals)
????–??
????–??		 Victorian Football League
Victorian Football Association		 5 (4)
3 (4)
Coaching career
Years Club Games (W–L–D)
1989–93 Williamstown ?? (??)
Career highlights

Barry Round (born 26 January 1950) played for Footscray and South Melbourne/Sydney in the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1969 and 1985. Along the way, he played 328 games (135 for Footscray and 193 for South Melbourne/Sydney), won a Brownlow Medal in 1981 (tying with his former teammate Bernie Quinlan) and was the Swans' first captain during the Sydney era. Round's height and weight was 193 cm (6 ft 4 in) and 108 kg (17 st 0 lb).

After retirement from VFL football, he played and coached for several years for Williamstown in the Victorian Football Association, the second highest level of football in Victoria, where he participated in their 1986 and Captain/Coached their 1990 premiership teams. He won the Association Best and Fairest award, the J. J. Liston Trophy, in 1987 and won the 1990 Norm Goss Medal for best a field in the Grand Final.

Round Captained the Williamstown Football Club in the 1989-1991 seasons, and Coached the club from 1989-1993. During his short time at the club Round won 3 consecutive Gerry Callahan Medals (Williamstown Best and Fairest Award) between 1987-89. In 2009 Barry Round was named in the Williamstown Team of the Century in the Ruck Position. In May 2014, Williamstown FC held their 150-year celebration and Inducted Round as part of their Inaugural Hall Of Fame. On the same night he was elevated to Legend Status of the club, being one of only 5 players to do so.

In 2005, Round appeared on The AFL Footy Show's singing competition, "Screamers".

In 2001 Round was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame with a citation that read:

Lion-hearted big man who represented Footscray and Sydney with distinction.

He is a member of Sydney's Team of the Century, which was announced in 2003.

Barry's son David Round won the Williamstown best and fairest award in 1999.

Career highlights

Playing career:

Player honors:

References

Preceded by
Kelvin Templeton		 Brownlow Medallist
1981 		Succeeded by
Brian Wilson


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