[2] 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.
[3] He played for Rochester in 1962 and won the Michelsen Medal, given to each season's "Best and Fairest" in the Bendigo Football League.
Willett, who was also a premiership player with Rochester, returned to Collingwood briefly in 1964.
[2] For the remainder of the 1960s, he was playing coach with Mooroopna in the Goulburn Valley Football League (GVFL).
He won three Morrison Medals in four years, taking home the league "Best and Fairest" award in 1965, 1967 and 1968 and was inducted into the GVFL - Hall of Fame in 2014.