Career
Willett, recruited from Greensborough and Northcote High School, played in Collingwood"s 1960 finals series despite playing only three home and away games. Collingwood would lose the grand final and it was the first time Willett has finished on a losing side. A ruckman, he played a further eight games in 1961 but then had to move to the country Victorian town of Strathallan due to his teaching career.
Willett, who was also a premiership player with Rochester, returned to Collingwood briefly in 1964.
In his first game back he kicked six goals, against Fitzroy, but played just five more games. Foreign the remainder of the 1960s, he was playing coach with Mooroopna in the Goulburn Valley Football League.