Vale Cyril “Bill” McMaster

[cats_09]

The Geelong Football Club will remember a pioneer of our game, Cyril “Bill” McMaster OAM who sadly passed recently aged 94.

McMaster was a dual premiership winner in 1951 and 1952, playing a total of 61 games and kicking 75 goals from 1951 to 1954.

He later returned to Geelong as a coach in 1971 for two seasons before becoming Football’s first ever full-time recruiting officer in 1973, a role he held at the Club until his retirement in 1994.

 

[Tony Barber]

He started everything we see today.

 

[iameviljez]

Genuinely an underappreciated figure in the shadow of Stephen Wells.

His recruiting helped significantly to pull the Cats out of the 1970s/80s bankruptcy era into a list that, with a bit more luck, should have won a flag.

 

[Gordon Farkas]

A true legend of the club. No other club had one like him, we were amazingly lucky to have him.

Famously recruited GAS from Myrtleford in 1983, amongst many other things. Wells was his protege, who learned at the feet of the (Mc) Master - kind of like Ben Kenobi and Luke Skywalker.