Harry Lever

{{Short description|Australian rules footballer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2015}}

{{Use Australian English|date=September 2015}}

{{Infobox AFL biography

| name = Harry Lever

| image = Harry Lever 1910.jpg

| caption = Lever in 1910

| fullname = Henry Hulm Lever

| birth_date = {{birth date|1886|1|5|df=y}}

| birth_place = Parramatta, New South Wales{{fact|date=July 2024}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|1970|7|19|1886|1|5|df=yes}}

| death_place = Geelong West, Victoria

| originalteam = Brighton / Elwood

| height = 178 cm

| weight = 76 kg

| position =

| statsend = 1922

| years1 = 1905–1915,
1918–1919,
1921–1922

| club1 = St Kilda

| games_goals1 = 218 (6)

| careerhighlights =

}}

Henry Hulm Lever (5 January 1886 – 19 July 1970) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Originally playing for the Brighton Football Club in the amateur league, Lever played as a fullback in his 15-year VFL career which began in 1905. In 1907, he lost two fingers in a band saw accident.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10142098 |title=FOOTBALLER'S FINGERS CUT OFF. |newspaper=The Argus (Melbourne) |issue=19,032 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=18 July 1907 |accessdate=11 July 2024 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}} After his wound was attended to, he played for St Kilda the following afternoon.{{fact|date=July 2024}}

He did not play in 1916 or 1917 as St Kilda were in recess due to World War I, while he missed 1920 as he was injured in the pre-season.

Lever was captain of St Kilda's 1913 VFL Grand Final team.

He was the first St Kilda player to play 200 games, with his 218 games for St Kilda remaining the club record until it was broken by Ross Smith in Round 21 of 1972.It was believed at his retirement in 1926 that Wels Eicke held the St. Kilda club record with 267 games, but writers and Australian rules football historians Russell Holmesby and Greame Atkinson discovered in 1972 that Eicke had played 197 games for St. Kilda: the total of 267 had included 21 matches for North Melbourne and 49 matches as playing coach (29 at St. Kilda and 20 at North Melbourne) that had been double-counted.