Kenneth McAullay was born on September 1949 and is one of Western Australia’s most notable all round sportsmen, representing our state in football and cricket in the early 1970’s. Recognised mainly for his footballing exploits McAullay was a key defender for the East Perth club from 1967 to 1975. He won that club’s fairest
and best award in 1971 and followed that with a Simpson Medal in the Royals premiership win in 1972. McAullay was always at his best in contests at the highest level. In six matches for WA McAullay was in the best two players in five of those encounters. He brilliantly won the Tassie Medal as the best player in the Australian Championship’s in Perth in 1972. Geoff Christian, the doyen of WA football journalists in the second half of the twentieth century named McAullay as a key member of his selected side in the 1945 – 1975 period when our state was a dominant force.
