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Patrick Yost Walsh (21 August 1906 – 3 August 1988) was an Australian rules footballer who played with the Essendon Football Club in the VFL/AFL.
The son of Michael Walsh (1867–1942),[2] and Matilda Walsh (1864–1947), née Yost.[3]
Having attracted the Essendon club's attention, as one of the best players on the ground during Essendon's Tasmanian tour match against a combined North-Eastern Football team, at Scottsdale on 28 July 1926 (Essendon coach Syd Barker officiated as field umpire),[4][5] he was recruited in 1927.[6]
Walsh was a left-footed ruckman who won the Essendon Best and Fairest award in 1933. He played 115 games for the club over 10 seasons,[7] and represented Victoria at interstate football 12 times in his career. He badly injured his knee in Essendon's 4 June 1934 (round 5) match against Richmond (his 105th senior game), and did not play again that season.[8]
He resumed his career in 1935, and played another 12 senior games before he announced his retirement after the 18 July 1936 (round 11) against Footscrary.[9]
He was employed by the Melbourne and Metropolitan Fire Brigade[11][12] – as were his team-mates Garnet Campbell, Jack Vosti, Ernie Watson, and Len Webster.[13]
He was made a life member of the Essendon Football Club in 1961.[14]
He was selected for VFL representative teams in thirteen Intra-State and Inter-State matches over six different years; however, although selected to represent the VFL in the 1930 ANFC Adelaide Carnival – in which he could have played another five games for the Victorian team in Adelaide (see: Carnival's Victorian Matches) – he was forced to withdraw from the team because he could not get leave from his employment as a fireman.[15]
He was one of the inaugural inductees (at No.25 of the total 130 selected) into the Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame in 2005.[34]
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