Bill Mayman

{{short description|Australian rules footballer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2016}}

{{Use Australian English|date=August 2016}}

{{Infobox AFL biography

| name = Bill Mayman

| image =

| fullname = William Mayman

| birth_date = {{birth date|1887|05|01|df=y}}

| birth_place = Footscray, Victoria

| death_date = {{death date and age|1970|04|20|1887|05|01|df=y}}

| death_place = Westbourne Park, South Australia

| originalteam = Mines Rovers

| height =

| weight =

| position = Centre

| statsend = 1926

| years1 = 1906-1911

| club1 = Mines Rovers (Goldfields FL)

| years2 = 1912

| club2 = Boulder City (Goldfields FL)

| years3 = 1913–1915, 1919–1921

| club3 = Sturt (SANFL)

| games_goals3 = 79 (11)

| years4 = 1922–1924

| club4 = New Town (TAS)

| games_goals4 = 26 (15)

| years5 = 1925

| club5 = Burnie (TAS)

| games_goals5 = 15 (11)

| coachyears1 = 1914-1915, 1919

| coachclub1 = Sturt

| coachyears2 = 1923-1924

| coachclub2 = New Town

| coachyears3 = 1925

| coachclub3 = Burnie

| careerhighlights = * 3 games for Western Australia

• 7 games for South Australia
• 10 games for Tasmania
• Captain of Sturt 1914-1919
• Captain of Tasmania 1923-1924
• Captain of New Town 1923-1924
• Captain of Burnie 1925
• Sturt Premiership Captain 1915, 1919
• Sturt Team of the Century
• Sturt Hall of Fame Inductee 2006
• South Australian Football Hall of Fame Inductee 2019

}}

Bill Mayman (1 May 1887 – 20 April 1970) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Sturt in the South Australian Football League (SAFL).{{cite book|last1=Lysikatos|first1=John|title=We Are Sturt - Vol.1 1901-1944|date=2015|publisher=Newstyle Printing|location=Mile End, South Australia|isbn=978-0-9943026-0-1|pages=68–69|edition=First}}

A centreman or half-back flanker,{{cite news|newspaper=Western Mail|publication-place=Perth, WA|title=Forty-five years of Carnival Football|date=9 July 1953|page=15}} Mayman began his career at Mines Rovers in the Goldfields Football Association. In 1913, he joined Sturt in the South Australian Football League, and became captain in 1914. He led the club to its first and second premierships in 1915 and 1919.{{cite web|last1=Devaney|first1=John|title=Bill Mayman |url=http://australianfootball.com/players/player/bill%2Bmayman/70 |website=AustralianFootball.com|publisher=Full Points Footy|accessdate=6 November 2015}} In 1922, he moved to Tasmania and joined the New Town Football Club, playing there for three years.

Mayman represented three different states at carnival football, representing Western Australia in 1911, captaining South Australia in 1914, and represented Tasmania in 1924.

He is the great-granduncle of Australian rules footballers Bradley Crouch, who plays for the St Kilda Football Club, and his younger brother and former teammate Matt Crouch, who plays for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).