Whimpress believes the passion that Fos Williams had for interstate football added a lot to the rivalry. Personal life and family Fos Williams was the son of Melville George Williams and Emma Otellia Williams (née McMillan). He had three brothers who played league football being Frank, Glynn and Alec Williams. Frank played with Port Adelaide, Glynn played for West Adelaide and Sturt while Alec played predominantly for Sturt with a single season at South Fremantle in 1940. Williams married Veronica Ganley on 26 January 1956 in Unley, South Australia. Their four children all had successful sports careers. Son Mark Williams played 380 games of league football for West Adelaide and Port Adelaide in the SANFL, and Collingwood and Brisbane in the VFL, and coached the Australian Football League's Port Adelaide Football Club for twelve years, including its first AFL premiership. Anthony Williams (Mark's twin, died 1988) also played for West Adelaide and Port Adelaide. Youngest son Stephen Williams played 268 games and coached eight seasons for Port Adelaide in the SANFL, winning nine premierships as player and coach. Daughter Jenny Williams represented Australia in several sports, but was best noted as a lacrosse player. Williams died on 1 September 2001 aged 79. He was survived by his wife Von, sons Mark and Stephen and daughter Jenny. Legacy Football historian John Devaney wrote of Williams that "Perhaps more than any other single individual, Fos Williams was responsible for catapulting South Australian football out of its predominantly casual, laissez faire mentality into the same kind of professional, brutally expedient, 'win at all costs' mindset as prevailed across the border in Victoria." Williams was made a Member of the Order of Australia on 26 January 1981 for his service to the sport of Australian football. Williams has a number of honours in his name, such as the Fos Williams Medal, awarded to South Australia's best player in a State of Origin game, and grandstands at both Alberton Oval and Adelaide Oval named the "Fos Williams Stand". Australian Football Hall of Fame legend Barrie Robran said of Fos Williams that "He is a truly great man. His legacy to Australian football will be both indelibly and deservedly imprinted in the annals of South Australian football". Football historian and journalist Michelangelo Rucci in 1999 proclaimed that "When the century ends in 2000 and they assess all the men who have built the Port Adelaide Football