| Tim Evans | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||
| Date of birth | (1953-08-13)13 August 1953 (age 71) | ||
| Place of birth | Tasmania | ||
| Original team(s) | Penguin (NWFU) | ||
| Height | 189 cm (6 ft 2 in) | ||
| Weight | 96 kg (212 lb) | ||
| Position(s) | Full forward, half back | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1971–1974 | Geelong | 59(26) | |
| 1975–1986 | Port Adelaide | 230(993)[1] | |
| Total | 289 (1019) | ||
| Representative team honours | |||
| Years | Team | Games (Goals) | |
| 1979–1983 | South Australia | 10 (41) | |
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1986. | |||
| Career highlights | |||
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| Sources:AFL Tables,AustralianFootball.com | |||
Tim Evans (born 13 August 1953) is a formerAustralian rules football player who played forPort Adelaide in theSouth Australian National Football League (SANFL) andGeelong in theVictorian Football League (VFL).
Originally fromTasmania, Evans played forPenguin Football Club in theNorth West Football Union.[2]
Evans was recruited by Geelong in1971, where he spent four seasons at half back.
In 1975, he joined Port Adelaide and went on to play 230 games for the club. He won the club's goalkicking with 64 that year.
After a season used in defence, he was moved tofull forward in 1977 by coachJohn Cahill and was an immediate success, leading the league with 88 goals, including seven in Port Adelaide'sGrand Final win overGlenelg. He repeated the performance in 1978, kicking 90 for the season.
Evans first kicked over 100 goals in 1980 when he kicked a then-SANFL record 146 goals, and would win the league's inauguralKen Farmer Medal in 1981 kicking 98 for the season.
Evans retired at the end of the 1986 season. He had kicked 993 goals, the second highest total in SANFL history behindNorth Adelaide'sKen Farmer (who kicked 1,417 between 1929 and 1941), and 1,019 in his career, the 12th highest total in elite Australian rules football.
Evans also kicked 41 goals in 10 games forSouth Australia ininterstate football, and a further 51 goals in 18 games in pre-season and night series competition: if these are included, Evans kicked a total of 1,111 goals in his senior career, the ninth highest total in elite Australian rules football.
He played in Port Adelaide's 1977 and 1979–81 premiership teams as well as playingfull back in the losing 1976 Grand Final toSturt in front of the SANFL record crowd of 66,897 atFootball Park, and also in the losing 1984 Grand Final.
Evans topped the SANFL's goalkicking six times, and was Port's leading goalkicker ten times.
He was an inaugural inductee into theSouth Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2002 and was inducted into theTasmanian Football Hall of Fame in 2008. Tim Evans is also a Port Adelaide Life Member, an SANFL player Life Member (for having played 200 games) and was selected at full forward inPort Adelaide's Greatest Team of players from 1870–2000.