Wayne Bevan

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Wayne Bevan (born 26 January 1953) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Wayne was a member of the 1972 Reserves Premiership team and showed a lot of promise at full-forward for Hawthorn in 1973, with his magnificent long torpedo punts a feature of his game. Bevan had grown up in Rubicon, north-east of Melbourne, and played his junior football for Thornton-Eildon District Football & Netball Club. Thornton only had an under 17 team and he played in this from age 11 onwards. Bevan played one senior game for Thornton-eildon as a 15-year-old, kicking six goals against Avenel in the Waranga North East Football Association, a strong competition which included modern-day GVFL clubs, Euroa, Mansfield and Seymour. Bevan was a South Melbourne supporter growing up, but Hawthorn was his ‘second team’, as the game he tended to see each year was Hawthorn versus South at Glenferrie. Tragically, Bevan’s father died when on the job for the SEC and the family moved to Ashburton to be closer to his mother’s parents. In 1969, Bevan who had become a Chadstone High School student, represented the Hawthorn Football Club and made it through to the final of the Sunkick with an average of 58 yds 2 in. His longest kick was 65 yds 1 ft 2 in "or approximately 60 Meters".…

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