Percy Trotter

{{Short description|Australian rules footballer (1883–1959)}}

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{{Infobox AFL biography

| name = Percy Trotter

| image = Percy Trotter 1905 cc.jpg

| caption = Cigarette card of Trotter in 1905

| fullname = Percival George Trotter

| birth_date = 1 September 1883

| birth_place = Fitzroy, Victoria

| death_date = {{death date and age|1959|8|27|1883|9|1|df=yes}}

| death_place = Willagee, Western Australia

| originalteam = St Luke's Fitzroy

| height =

| weight =

| position =

| statsend = 1919

| years1 = 1901–1906

| club1 = Fitzroy

| games_goals1 = 109 (145)

| years2 = 1907–1909

| club2 = Essendon Association

| games_goals2 = 32 (74)

| years3 = 1910–1919

| club3 = East Fremantle

| games_goals3 = 59 (72)

| games_goalstotal = 200 (291){{cite web|url=http://www.wafootball.com.au/resources/47/history|title=Premiership Players 1904 - 1930|publisher=West Australian Football Commission|access-date=16 September 2014}}

| careerhighlights = * AIF Pioneer Exhibition Game, London,
28 October 1916

}}

Percival George "Percy" Trotter (1 September 1883 – 27 August 1959){{cite web|url=http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=strotter&id=I583#s3|title=RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: Trotter / Bewsher Family (Ireland, England & Australia)|publisher=RootsWeb.com|access-date=16 September 2014}} 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).{{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}}{{cite web|url=http://australianfootball.com/players/player/percy%2Btrotter/1538|title=Australian Football - Percy Trotter - Player Bio|publisher=Australian Football.com|access-date=16 September 2014}}

Family

The son of George Thomas Trotter (1858-1910),[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10460880 Deaths: Trotter, The Argus, (15 September 1910), p.1.] 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.[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32218061 Deaths: Trotter, The West Australian, (Saturday, 25 August 1928), p.1.]

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

Football career

=Fitzroy (VFL)=

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)=

Trotter's time with East Fremantle was interrupted by his service in World War I.{{cite web |url=http://discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au/browse/person/365858 |title=Discovering Anzacs - Percy George Trotter}}

Image:Australian Training Units Football Team (28 October 1916).tif

=Training Units team (AIF)=

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.The original newsreel: {{YouTube | LuUjgJHLgdg | title= Australian Football (Pathé Newsreel, 1916)}}The 2019 remastered and colourised version of the original newsreel: {{YouTube | B88dBgC01YA | title= Australian Football (Pathé Newsreel, 1916), remastered and colourised version (2019)}}

See also

Footnotes

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References

  • [http://purl.slwa.wa.gov.au/slwa_b1874692_13.pdf?agree Pioneer Exhibition Game Australian Football: in aid of British and French Red Cross Societies: 3rd Australian Division v. Australian Training Units at Queen's Club, West Kensington, on Saturday, October 28th, 1916, at 3pm, Wightman & Co., (London), 1919.]
  • Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
  • Photograph at [https://thewest.com.au/sport/afl/haydn-bunton-jr-accepts-elevation-of-his-father-to-wa-football-hall-of-fame-in-emotional-final-event-at-subiaco-oval-ng-b88671811z Butler, Steve (2017), "Haydn Bunton Jr accepts elevation of his father to WA Football Hall of Fame in emotional final event at Subiaco Oval", The West Australian, Monday, 27 November 2017.]
  • [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154547064 An Incident in the Game: Running with the Ball, The Winner, (Wednesday, 10 January 1917), p.4.]
  • [https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/awm-media/collection/RCDIG1067405/large/5369887.JPG First World War Embarkation Roll: Private Percy George Trotter (5791), collection of the Australian War Memorial.]
  • [https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/awm-media/collection/RCDIG1068940/large/5363927.JPG First World War Nominal Roll: Private Percy George Trotter (5791), collection of the Australian War Memorial.]
  • [https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/NAAMedia/ViewPDF.aspx?B=8394636&D=D First World War Service Record: Private Perry (sic) George Trotter (5791), National Archives of Australia.]
  • Richardson, N. (2016), The Game of Their Lives, Pan Macmillan Australia: Sydney. {{ISBN|978-1-7435-3666-7}}