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Percy Trotter

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Percy Trotter
Cigarette card of Trotter in 1905
Personal information
Full name Percival George Trotter
Date of birth 1 September 1883
Place of birth Fitzroy, Victoria
Date of death 27 August 1959(1959-08-27) (aged 75)
Place of death Willagee, Western Australia
Original team(s) St Luke's Fitzroy
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1901–1906 Fitzroy 109 (145)
1907–1909 Essendon Association
1910–1919 East Fremantle 059 0(72)[1]
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1919.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Percival George "Percy" Trotter (1 September 1883 – 27 August 1959)[2] was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Fitzroy Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL), Essendon Association in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) and East Fremantle in the West Australian Football League (WAFL).[3][4]

Family

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The son of George Thomas Trotter (1858-1910),[5] and Mary Trotter (1857-1951), née Brookman, Percival George Trotter was born at Fitzroy, Victoria on 1 September 1883.

He married Annie Ethel Martin (1887-1928) on 5 October 1904.[6]

His great nephew Barrie Trotter played two games for Richmond in 1979.

Football career

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Fitzroy (VFL)

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Trotter played as a rover and was versatile in that he could kick well with both feet. He debuted in 1901 at the age of 18. In 2002 Trotter was named on the interchange bench in Fitzroy's official 'Team of the Century'.

East Fremantle (WAFL)

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Trotter's time with East Fremantle was interrupted by his service in World War I.[7]

The Australian Training Units Team: 28 October 1916.[8] Percy Trotter is at the left of the five in the middle row.

Training Units team (AIF)

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He played in the famous "Pioneer Exhibition Game" of Australian Rules football, held in London, in October 1916. A news film was taken at the match.[9][10]

See also

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Footnotes

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  1. ^ "Premiership Players 1904 - 1930". West Australian Football Commission. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  2. ^ "RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: Trotter / Bewsher Family (Ireland, England & Australia)". RootsWeb.com. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  3. ^ Donald, Chris (2002). Fitzroy: For The Love Of The Jumper. Pan Macmillan Australia. ISBN 978-1-877029-18-9.
  4. ^ "Australian Football - Percy Trotter - Player Bio". Australian Football.com. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  5. ^ Deaths: Trotter, The Argus, (15 September 1910), p.1.
  6. ^ Deaths: Trotter, The West Australian, (Saturday, 25 August 1928), p.1.
  7. ^ "Discovering Anzacs - Percy George Trotter".
  8. ^ Detail of Organised by Australian Olympic swimmer Lieutenant Frank Beaurepaire, etc., in the collection of the Australian War Memorial (Accession number: H16688).
  9. ^ The original newsreel: Australian Football (Pathé Newsreel, 1916) on YouTube
  10. ^ The 2019 remastered and colourised version of the original newsreel: Australian Football (Pathé Newsreel, 1916), remastered and colourised version (2019) on YouTube

References

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