Past Player of the Week – Neville Way

Wartime competition 1942-1944
Norwood-North games: 14
Norwood-North goals: 21

Neville James Way was born on 16 March 1924 and grew up on the Western Australian goldfields. He attended Goldfields High School where he was nicknamed “Inky” because of his jet black hair. 

After playing in the Goldfields League for Boulder City in 1940 and 1941, he enlisted in the Navy in 1942 and while stationed in Melbourne, played eight games for St Kilda in the VFL.