title: Wally Roach
text: # Wally Roach
  
  Gustavus Walter Roach (20 December 1885 – 6 May 1971) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne, Essendon and St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
  
  ## Family
  
  He married Violet Emily Parkes in 1912.
  
  ## Football
  
  Roach, who played mostly on the wing or across half forward, made his league and South Melbourne debut in the opening round of the 1907 VFL season but did not feature again for the rest of the year.
  
  He spent the 1908 season playing for St Kilda Wednesday.
  
  In 1909 he returned to the VFL and had one season stints at both Essendon, and St Kilda.
  
  He later played for Victorian Football Association (VFA) clubs North Melbourne, Brighton and Hawthorn.
  
  ## Death
  
  He died on 6 May 1971.
  
  ## Footnotes
  
  * ↑ "Football". (Emerald Hill) Record. Vol. XII, no. 17. Victoria, Australia. 27 April 1907. p. 3.
  * ↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia Of AFL Footballers. BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-920910-78-5.
  * 1 2 "AFL Tables: Wally Roach". afltables.com.
  * ↑ Maplestone (1996), pp.406, 412, 452.
  * ↑ "Walter Roach". Essendon Football Club official website.
  * ↑ Deaths: Roach, The Age, (Monday, 10 May 1971), p.15.
  