Alex Way

{{Short description|Australian rules footballer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}

{{Use Australian English|date=August 2011}}

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| name = Alex Way

| image =

| fullname = Alexander John Francis Way

| birth_date = {{birth date|1925|08|13|df=yes}}

| birth_place =

| death_date = {{death date and age |2014|11|07|1925|08|13|df=yes}}

| death_place = Malvern, Victoria

| originalteam = Coburg Rangers

| height = 180 cm

| weight = 78 kg

| position = Half forward

| guernsey = 4

| statsend = 1948

| years1 = 1944–48

| club1 = Carlton

| games_goals1 = 32 (27)

| careerhighlights =

}}

Alexander John Francis Way (13 August 1925 – 7 November 2014) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1940s.

Way played six games in his debut season, for 12 goals, five of them in a match against Geelong. He was recruited from the Coburg Rangers and was a member of Carlton's 1945 premiership team.

Way, the nephew of former Carlton player Jack Way, later moved to Tasmania where he played for City and later Longford in the Northern Tasmanian Football Association.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article96270838 |title=Longford hopes to play Way this week. |newspaper=The Examiner |location=Launceston, Tasmania |date=23 June 1954 |accessdate=9 November 2014 |page=23 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article149507513 |title=Longford Prove too Strong For Scottsdale. |newspaper=North-Eastern Advertiser (Scottsdale, Tas. : 1909–1954) |location=Scottsdale, Tas. |date=29 June 1954 |accessdate=9 November 2014 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}} He then returned to Melbourne in 1963, where he lived in the south-east suburbs until his death in November 2014.{{cite web|url=http://www.carltonfc.com.au/news/2014-11-08/bloodbath-blue-dies-and-then-there-was-one|title="Bloodbath" Blue dies... and then there was one|last=De Bolfo|first=Tony|date=8 November 2014|publisher=carltonfc.com.au|accessdate=8 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141108083730/http://www.carltonfc.com.au/news/2014-11-08/bloodbath-blue-dies-and-then-there-was-one|archive-date=8 November 2014|url-status=dead}}