Lindsay Hetherington was a product of Sydney junior football from the Western Suburbs area, and played his entire career for Western Suburbs Club.
He played from 1965 to 1981, and his career in 1st grade extended for 16 years from 1965 to 1980. He played 270 1st grade games for Western Suburbs and a total of 293 1st and Reserve Grade games for Western Suburbs.
During this era, Western Suburbs were the powerhouse in Sydney Football. Lindsay played in premiership years for Wests in 1965, 1966, 1969, 1972, 1974, 1975, and 1977.
Lindsay was an outstanding goal-kicker during the early 1970s.
He won the League's Goalkicking award in 1972 with 117 goals. At the time this was the most goals ever kicked by a player in a season.
Lindsay played representative football for either New South Wales or Sydney representative sides in 1967, 1971, 1972 and 1974.
He is known to have achieved at least 41 votes in the Phelan Medal over his career and may have achieved up to 75 votes. (Full records of all votes are not held for every year). His 41 votes would place him as the 87th highest vote getter of all time.
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