Bill Woods (Australian footballer)

William Woods (31 August 1890 – c. 1972) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Family
The son of William Woods, a farmer, and Isabella Woods, née Cornell, William Woods was born at Portarlington, Victoria on 31 August 1890.

He married Linda Barbara "Mardi" Allen (1889-1991) on 21 August 1915. They had one child, a daughter.

Military service
He enlisted in the First AIF in 1915, served overseas, sustained a gunshot wound to the head in action in France in 1916, and returned to Australia in 1919.

Death
He died at Heidelberg, Victoria in 1972.