Percy Parratt

{{Short description|Australian rules footballer and coach}}

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{{Infobox AFL biography

| name = Percy Parratt

| image = Percy Parratt 1912.jpg

| caption = Cigarette card of Parratt in 1912

| fullname = Percy Thomas Parratt

| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1887|2|27}}

| birth_place = Collingwood, Victoria

| death_date = {{death date and age|1971|5|1|1887|2|27|df=yes}}

| death_place = Heidelberg, Victoria{{cite web|url=http://records.ancestry.com/percy_thomas_parratt_records.ashx?pid=21070782|title=Percy Thomas Parratt|publisher=Ancestry.com|access-date=5 September 2014}}

| height = 178 cm / 74k g

| weight =

| position =

| statsend = 1923

| coachstatsend = 1935

| years1 = 1909–1923

| club1 = {{AFL Fit}}

| games_goals1 = 195 (202)

| coachyears1 = 1913–1915;
1920–1921

| coachclub1 = {{AFL Fit}}

| coachgames_wins1 = {{0}}91 (62–26–3)

| coachyears2 = 1924

| coachclub2 = {{AFL Car}}

| coachgames_wins2 = {{0}}16 {{0}}(5–10–1)

| coachyears3 = 1935

| coachclub3 = {{AFL Gee}}

| coachgames_wins3 = {{0}}18 {{0}}(6–11–1)

| coachgames_winstotal = 125 (74–47–5)

| careerhighlights = *{{AFL Fit}} premiership playing coach 1913

  • {{AFL Fit}} premiership player 1916, 1922
  • {{AFL Fit}} captain 1914–1915, 1920–1921

}}

Percy Thomas Parratt (27 February 1887 – 1 May 1971){{cite book|last=Donald, Chris|title=Fitzroy: For The Love Of The Jumper| publisher=Pan Macmillan Australia|year=2002|isbn=978-1-877029-18-9}} was an Australian rules footballer who played 195 games for the Fitzroy Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) from 1909 to 1923, kicking 202 goals.

Football

He started out at Rose of Northcote.

After leaving the club he became coach of {{AFL Car}}, which he led in the 1924 season.

Notes

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References

  • [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article189128470 Freake, J. (1935), "Golden Days of Partnership with Percy Parratt, The Sporting Globe, (Saturday, 7 September 1935), p.7.]
  • de Lacy, H.A. (1941), [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article180301899 "Unforgettable Characters in Football: Dual Personality: Percy Parratt and Jimmy Freake", The Sporting Globe, (Saturday, 28 June 1941), p.6.]