David Perry
2015
2015
Player 1985 to 1990
North Beach Amateur Football Club
The WAAFL is honoured to induct one of the modern greats of amateur football in David Perry into the WAAFL Hall of Champions.
Dave Perry began his WAAFL playing career with the North Beach Amateur Football Club in 1985.
His 93 games for North Beach between 1985 and 1990 achieved many team and personal accolades at the highest level of amateur football in Australia.
In 1986, Perry was selected in the WAAFL State Team to play in the Australian Amateur Football Council Carnival in Melbourne. He was recognised as WA’s best player of the carnival and selected in the All Australian Amateur Team. Later that year, he was awarded North Beach’s Aitken Medal for Champion Footballer and runner-up in the club’s A Grade fairest and best.
Similarly, in 1987 he was chosen to Captain the WAAFL State Team against South Australia in Perth and again won North Beach’s Aitken Medal. He completed the season by winning North Beach’s A Grade fairest and best, and the C.J. Jamieson Medal as the WAAFL A Grade’s fairest and best player.
He went on to win the C.J. Jamieson Medal again in 1989, a year in which he was part of North Beach’s first A Grade Premiership.
In 1988 he was chosen as Captain of the Australian Amateur Football Council team which played in Division 2 of the AFL Bi-Centennial Carnival in Adelaide, was awarded North Beach’s Aitken Medal for the third consecutive year and won his club’s A Grade fairest and best for a second time.
Additionally in 1988, Perry was chosen to Captain the WAAFL State Team in the Australian Amateur Football Council Carnival in Launceston. At the completion of the carnival he was selected in the All Australian Amateur Team and recognised as the best player of the carnival.
Perry finished his career by winning another A Grade premiership with North Beach in 1990.
Andrew Piccoli
2017
2017
Player 2002 - 2016/Coach 2016 - Current
Wembley Amateur Football Club
Andrew Piccoli played 230 games for the Wembley Amateur Football Club from 2002- 2016. He was the League captain from 2008-2013 winning the clubs League Fairest & Best in 2007 and 2011 as well as being runner up in the award in 2004, 2009 and 2012. He was the Wembley league leading goal kicker in 2005, 2007, 2011, 2012 and 2013. Andrew was a premiership player for the Wembley B Grade team in 2005.
In 2007, he won the CJ Jaimeson Medal as the A Grade Best & Fairest player as well as the A Grade Leading Goal Kicker Award in the same year.
In 2012, Andrew won the B Grade Best and Fairest medal as well as the B Grade leading goal kicker award. He was also runner up in the B Grade Best and Fairest in 2009 and 2011.
Andrew participated in the WAAFL State U23’s program in 2006 and 2007. He was rewarded with All Australian selection in both years as well as winning the LA Tetley Award as the best state player in 2007.
For the past four years Andrew has been an assistant coach of the WAAFL’s State 23’s.
Michael B. Salmon
2016
1974
Player/Administration 1974 - 2002
University Football Club
Michael played 154 games for the University Football Club. He played in his first premiership in 1974 in the A Colts competition.
In 1975 Michael played in University’s A Grade premiership and was selected in the state amateur representative team. In the same year he won the A Grade leading goal kicking award with 103 goals for the season.
He went on to play in University’s A Grade premierships in 1975 and 1977. He also travelled to Adelaide in 1978 to compete in the State WAAFL Team before being picked up by WAFL club Claremont in 1979.
Between 1979 and 1980 Michael played in Claremont’s league and reserves side including the Claremont Reserves premiership in 1980.
He returned to the University Football Club in 1981 where he played and coached the A Grade side to another premiership while being selected as Vice-Captain in the state amateur representative team and winning the inaugural B.J Giles Medal as the best player in the A Grade Grand Final.
He again coached the University team in 1982 and was selected as Captain of the All Australian Amateur Team following the carnival held in Perth.
He was also selected as vice-captain of the all Australian team that played Vic Country in 1983.
In 1985 Michael was selected as Vice-Captain in University’s Best 25 Year Team.
In 1986 he played in University’s F Grade Premiership as well as their I Grade premiership in 1988.
Michael Salmon finished with six premiership medals with three of those in A Grade. He was a four-time State Amateur Representative as well as being selected twice in the All Australian Amateur Team, once as Captain and once as Vice-Captain.
He was the inaugural chairman of the metropolitan football league council serving from 1996 to 2002.
Laurence A. Tetley
2010
2010
Player/Administrator 1934 - 1994
North Fremantle Amateur Football Club
Laurence “Laurie” Arnold Tetley is a legend at the North Fremantle Amateur Football Club. Affectionately known as Mr North Fremantle, Laurie began his career with the club in 1934 at the age of 13, serving as the club secretary.
In 1941 Laurie joined the East Fremantle Football Club and was a part of their Premiership team in 1941, competing against his brothers’ side West Perth. During World War II he played in the VFL for South Melbourne before returning to East Fremantle in 1945. In 1946 he began his playing career with the North Fremantle Amateur Football Club.
Laurie played 160 games for North Fremantle and was renowned for his pace and prodigious talent with the drop kick, twice earning selection for the WA Carnival team in 1948 and 1951, as well as being a two time winner of the North Fremantle Amateur Football Club Best and Fairest award in 1946 and 1948.
Off the field, Laurie has served as an administrator for the North Fremantle Amateur Football Club, Australian National Football Council and WA Amateur Football League. In 1954 he was awarded Life Membership of North Fremantle AFC and began his role as delegate to the League. It was also in 1954 that Laurie began his 22 year stint on the WAAFL Board.
He served as Secretary of North Fremantle from 1959 to 1962, and again in 1964 and 1984. Over that same period he served as Treasurer from 1959 to 1962, 1964 to 1980 and 1982 to 1987: a total of 27 years. He was elected President of North Fremantle in 1965 and served until 1974 before again taking the reins for a season in 1976, and he also served as Colts Manager for 18 years from 1966 to 1983.
Laurie was honoured with Life Membership of North Fremantle in 1964 with a bar added in 1975. The City of Fremantle named the gates at Gil Fraser Reserve the “Laurie Tetley Gates” in recognition of his outstanding work in football.
In 1961 Laurie was awarded Life Membership to the WAAFL before serving as Assistant Secretary from 1964 to 1966, also taking the responsibility as State Team Manager in 1962, the same year he served as Delegate for the Australian National Football Council.
He served as delegate again in 1967 and in 1974 and was awarded with a Certificate of Merit from the Australian National Football Council for his work with interstate teams.
Laurie Tetley’s work both on and off the field is still recognised to this day. The best player in the WAAFL state program is awarded the Laurie Tetley Medal. Each time North Fremantle and Fremantle CBC clash in A Grade, the clubs battle it out for the Laurie Tetley-Tom Naylor Trophy.
His elevation to the inaugural WAAFL Hall of Champions is an honour that sits comfortably on the shoulders of this great North Fremantle and WAAFL identity.
Charles J. B. Veryard
2013
2013
Administrator 1917 to 1967
Western Australian Amateur Football League
The WA Amateur Football League has turned back the pages of time to honour a man born in the last years of the 19th century and who added considerably to our national game at the community level.
Charles John Besley Veryard, born in 1898, was a player and official of significance. The WAAFL is proud to add his name to our Hall of Champions, as a Champion, our highest honour.
Veryard played 44 games for West Perth between 1917 and 1920, followed by four games at Subiaco. He was President of the West Perth Football Club from 1939 until 1941.
Veryard was in a unique position as an elected member of the City of Perth, serving on the Perth City Council as a councilor from 1927 and then being named Mayor of our great city in 1964, a position he held until his death in 1967.
Though chased by many league clubs, Veryard instead chose to help amateurs at the community level.
For four years prior to the war, from 1939 until 1941, while still at the West Perth Football Club, Veryard was president of the WA Amateur Football Association. Then the war years intervened. No amateur competition existed between 1942 and 1945 because of the war and when the forces started to return to Perth it was obvious that people of goodwill, ability and clout were needed to restart our community.
Luckily Charles Veryard saw Australian football as a necessary part of the Australian make-up, especially after World War II when our soldiers, sailors and airmen returned from the horrors of the battlefields. Charles Veryard stepped in to reorganize our game. He took over the presidency of the WA Amateur Football Association again in 1946 and for the next 16 years helped to re-establish the game at the community level.
Not only was he an administrator, he was Manager of the State team at the Perth Carnival in 1946 and his untiring work saw him honored with Life Membership of the WA Amateur Football Association in 1947.
A decade later his work was so highly regarded that delegate from all States of Australia elected Charles Veryard as President of the Australian Amateur Football Council, a position he held for three years from 1957 to 1959 when he became Western Australia’s delegate to the council in 1959.
It is a wonderful thing that the people of today involved in amateur football can recognize important people of the past who have done so much to sustain our great national game and that is why we’re adding Charles Veryard to our Hall of Champions, as a Champion of our game.