{"id":725106,"date":"2026-06-09T12:16:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T12:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/725106\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T12:16:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T12:16:20","slug":"australian-football-hall-of-fames-2026-inductees-to-be-unveiled-bill-walker-to-be-celebrated-as-new-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/725106\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Football Hall of Fames: 2026 inductees to be unveiled; Bill Walker to be celebrated as new Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a Western Australia star, Bill Walker, who was named as a new Legend back in February. Walker is his 80s but is at the function, and is about to speak to the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Walker says he defied his father\u2019s orders and went north in WA to play in the bush.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFootball started very young,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was either play seniors, or not play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Walker played in flags in his first three seasons after making his debut in 1961. A classic rover-forward, he kicked 456 goals in 305 matches with Swan Districts and played 21 state matches for Western Australia. He finished his career in 1975 as a four-time premiership player and five-time club best and fairest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a Western Australia star, Bill Walker, who was named as a new Legend back in February. Walker&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-725106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}