Barry Round

Who is Barry Round?

Barry Round played for Footscray and South Melbourne/Sydney in the Victorian Football League between 1969 and 1985. Along the way, he played 328 games, won a Brownlow Medal in 1981 and was the Swans' first captain during the Sydney era. Round's height and weight was 193 cm and 108 kg.

After retirement from VFL football, he played and coached for several years for Williamstown in the Victorian Football Association, the second highest level of football in Victoria, where he participated in their 1986 and Captain/Coached their 1990 premiership teams. He won the Association Best and Fairest award, the J. J. Liston Trophy, in 1987 and won the 1990 Norm Goss Medal for best a field in the Grand Final.

Round Captained the Williamstown Football Club in the 1989-1991 seasons, and Coached the club from 1989-1993. During his short time at the club Round won 3 consecutive Gerry Callahan Medals between 1987-89. In 2009 Barry Round was named in the Williamstown Team of the Century in the Ruck Position. In May of 2014, Williamstown FC held their 150 year celebration and Inducted Round as part of their Inaugural Hall Of Fame.