title: Bill Woods (Australian footballer)
text: # Bill Woods (Australian footballer)
  
  Bill Woods (born 31 August 1890) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
  
  ## Family
  
  The son of William Woods, a farmer, and Isabella Woods, née Cornell, William Woods was born at Portarlington, Victoria on 31 August 1890.
  
  He married Linda Barbara "Mardi" Allen (1889-1991) on 21 August 1915. They had one child, a daughter.
  
  ## Military service
  
  He enlisted in the First AIF in 1915, served overseas, sustained a gunshot wound to the head in action in France in 1916, and returned to Australia in 1919.
  
  ## Death
  
  He died at Heidelberg, Victoria in 1972.
  
  