Percy Martini

Percy Martini
Martini in 1910
Personal information
Full name	Percy Francis Joseph Martini
Date of birth	4 June 1888
Place of birth	Hawthorn, Victoria
Date of death	1 July 1961(1961-07-01) (aged 73)
Place of death	East Geelong, Victoria
Original team(s)	Marylebone
Height	183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	85 kg (187 lb)
Playing career^1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1909–1915	Geelong	103 (262)
1916	Richmond	010 0(22)
1917–1920	Geelong	046 0(71)
Total		159 (355)
^1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1920.
Career highlights
Geelong Leading Goalkicker 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1918, 1919 VFL Leading Goalkicker 1910 Richmond Leading Goalkicker 1916 Interstate games:- 2
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Percy Francis Joseph Martini (4 June 1888 – 1 July 1961)^[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played for Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Family

He married May Victoria Machar (1887–1928) in 1913.^[2]

Football

A full-forward, from 1909 until 1919 he was Geelong's leading goalkicker in every season except 1915. In 1916, the club did not take part in the competition due to the war, and Martini played with Richmond for the season and topped their goalkicking.

With 51 goals in 1910, he became the first Geelong player to kick over 50 goals in a season, and it was the biggest tally in the league for the year, posthumously earning a Leading Goalkicker Medal for his efforts. When he retired in 1920 he had managed to kick 333 goals for Geelong which at the time was a club record.

Footnotes

1. "Percy Martini - Player Bio". Australian Football. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
2. Deaths: Martini, The Age, (Friday, 29 November 1929), p.1.

References

• Hogan P: The Tigers of Old, Richmond FC, Melbourne 1996

External links

• Percy Martini's playing statistics from AFL Tables
• Percy Martini, at Boyles Football Photos