Perth Football Club
Encyclopedia
The Perth Football Club, nicknamed the Demons, is an Australian rules football
club playing in the West Australian Football League
(WAFL). The club plays its matches at Lathlain Park.
Perth remained competitive for the following decade despite a brief lapse that saw them fall to last in 1912. In the 1915 Grand Final they dominated against Subiaco
but could not convert, losing a low-scoring game 2.7 (19) to 3.3 (21). During the war years Perth continued to be prominent, finishing third in each of 1916, 1917 and 1918, but following the end of the war the club was to have a long period in the doldrums. In the twenty-five open-age seasons from 1919 to 1946 Perth played in the finals only three times for just one win over East Perth in 1934 - a record made much worse by the fact that for over half that period more than half of the teams would play off. From 1921 to 1923 the club suffered the ignominy of a hat-trick of wooden spoons, and though it became more competitive in the ensuing decade only in 1927, 1934 and 1939 did it win more games than it lost.
The next four years saw Perth decline somewhat, winning only six games in 1952 and being unconvincing against the might of South Fremantle and West Perth in the other three seasons. However, with champion ruckman Merv McIntosh
desperate to see his team with a premiership, Perth under experienced former Carlton
centreman Ern Henfry and captain Keith Harper, improved in 1955 to win fourteen of twenty minor round games and defeat the Cardinals in the first semi-final. They then upset South by twelve points and came back on a windy day to defeat East Fremantle by two points in the 1955 WANFL Grand Final
for their first premiership in forty-eight years. McIntosh crowned his last game winning the Simpson Medal
for best on field.
In the following four years Perth remained a force - most notably in nearly keeping East Perth goalless on a rain-drenched WACA in early 1956 - but could never overcome the Royals or East Fremantle in the finals. In order to draw closer to their metropolitan recruiting zone on the southern side of the Swan River
, the club moved in 1959 to a new home at Lathlain Park. Their first game there was on Anzac Day
and they beat Swan Districts, but that year ended ingloriously against Subiaco
- for years the WAFL’s “chopping block” - who in their first final since Perth’s rise to power in 1947 kicked an amazing 16.8 (104) in the third quarter. Perth took a while to recover from this caning and finished seventh, sixth and sixth in the following three seasons, but aided by a vigorous junior football council and strong support from local businesses, the Demons soon returned as a force despite twice failing in the finals in 1963 and 1964 and dropping to fifth in 1965 with ten wins from twenty-one games.
The appointment of Malcolm Atwell as captain-coach in 1966 was at first controversial, but with such young players as Barry Cable
, Perth more than fulfilled the most sanguine expectations. The Demons thrashed South Fremantle by 143 points in the opening game and from then on were always the team to beat, scoring a 16-point win over East Perth in the 1966 Grand Final. The next year, in 1967, the same clubs played off with a similar result – with the margin stretched to 18 points. Then in 1968 it was Perth, again over East Perth, by 24 points. In each case Perth was led by Atwell, with Cable collecting three Simpson Medals for brilliant best-on-ground roving performances. In 1970 the Demons were favoured to win a fourth flag in five years, but were convincingly upset by South Fremantle despite having more scoring shots.
from North Melbourne
where he had transferred in 1970, saw Perth decline abruptly to seventh or eight with only eight wins and a draw, and after a return to third in 1972, Cable’s last year with the club in 1973 saw them win only six games (their worst year since 1941 when they only won four games). Perth, however, rebounded under the coaching of former captain and 1955 premiership player Ken Armstrong. He took that year's team, skippered by the versatile Bob Shields, into the Grand Final. Though wingman David Pretty won the Simpson Medal, Perth failed against East Fremantle, and missed the finals in 1975. However, despite not being perfectl consistent during the home-and-away round, the Demons under new captain Colin Lofts clicked when it counted, taking out the 1976 Grand Final by 23 points, again at the expense of East Perth. Courageous defender, Mal Day, won the Simpson Medal for an outstanding game. It just got better for the Demons, with the team dominating in 1977, capping the season off with a record 26–13 (169) winning score against East Fremantle. Ruckman Wim Rosbender marked his best season, winning the Simpson Medal.
Armstrong and new captain Ken Inman had high hopes of another premiership hat-trick with big wins during the 1978 season. Their goal was denied by just two points in a grand final marred by very wet conditions.
that year was hoped to return the Demons to a WAFL power, but after finishing third in 1986 the club was devastated by the loss of players to new VFL
club West Coast
and fell back down the ladder, ultimately taking wooden spoons in 1993 and 1994 and not being able to stay far from the bottom.
Despite an inglorious start with its lowest score since 1952 against Swan Districts
, 1997 saw the Demons play consistently enough to record their best home-and-away performance for nineteen years, missing out on the double chance by only five percent from East Fremantle. The manner in which the Demons reversed a last round loss to East Perth by eleven goals in the first semi final might have made people think a grand final berth at the very least was forthcoming, but South Fremantle put paid to that with a six goal win in the preliminary final and Perth soon returned to the basement - competing with new club Peel for the wooden spoon during most of the 2000s. In 2000, indeed, Perth were very lucky not to have their first winless season, beating Swan Districts in the final round. Even improvements to a 50/50 win/loss ratio in 2002 and 2004 were very brief: in 2005 the club won only three games; and more recently the recruitment of their first high-profile coach since Mal Brown in former North Adelaide, Norwood
and Adelaide Crows
champion Andrew Jarman
collapsed completely after a promising 2009 season: the Demons won only two games in 2010 for their thirteenth wooden spoon.
Runners Up: (10 total) 1904, 1908, 1909, 1913, 1915, 1949, 1950, 1970, 1974, 1978
Reserves Premierships : (12 total) 1925, 1949, 1955, 1957, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1988, 1996
Colts Premierships: (8 total) 1959, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1972, 1999
Rodriguez Shield: (4 total) 1963, 1964, 1968, 1978
Wooden spoons: (13 total) 1900, 1912, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1935, 1981, 1984, 1993, 1994, 2000, 2007, 2010
, 1943: Terry Moriarty
, 1945: George Bailey
, 1948: Merv McIntosh
, 1953: Merv McIntosh
, 1954: Merv McIntosh
, 1961: Neville Beard
, 1964: Barry Cable
, 1968: Barry Cable
, 1970: Pat Dalton
, 1972: Ian Miller
, 1973: Barry Cable
, 1983: Bryan Cousins
1983, 1987: Mark Watson, 1999: Gus Seebeck
, 2009: Ross Young
Bernie Naylor Medalists: (11 total) 1913: Alf Halliday (46), 1914: Alf Halliday (38), 1916: Alf Halliday (38), 1921: Allan Evans
(64), 1931: Doug Oliphant
(84), 1939: Albert Gook (102), 1950: Ron Tucker
(115), 1975: Murray Couper
(63), 1985: Mick Rea
(100), 1986: Mick Rea
(90), 1994: Brenton Cooper (90)
All Australians:(7 total) 1953: erv McIntosh, 1956: Keith Harper
, 1966 & 1969: Barry Cable
, 1969: Greg Brehaut
, 1972: Ian Miller
, 1986: Robert Wiley
Tassie Medallists: (2 total) 1953: Merv McIntosh
, 1966: Barry Cable
Lowest Score: Round 10, 1903 - 0.3 (3) vs. East Fremantle at Fremantle Oval
Greatest Winning Margin: Round 15, 1904 - 153 points vs. Subiaco
at WACA
Greatest Losing Margin: Round 17, 1981 - 173 points vs. Claremont
at Claremont Oval
Most Games: Terry Moriarty 253 (1942-1953)
Record Home Attendance: Round 6, 1967 - 19,541 v East Perth
Record Finals Attendance: 1966 Grand Final - 46,763 v East Perth at Subiaco Oval
Longest Winning Streak: 14 games, from Round 12, 1968 to Round 2, 1969 (including 1968 premiership)
Longest Losing Streak: 20 games, from Round 20, 1999 to Round 20, 2000
(21 games without win from Round 7, 1922 to Round 13, 1923)
for best and fairest
player in the WAFL including two players, Merv McIntosh and Barry Cable, who have won the medal three times.
Current AFL players who originated from the Perth Football Club include Lance Franklin
, Chance Bateman
, Leon Davis
, Darren Glass
, Steven Armstrong
, Scott Stevens
, Damon White, Brennan Stack, Mark Coughlan
, Ryan Hargrave
, Michael Johnson
, Sharrod Wellingham
and more recently Chris Mayne
and David Myers.
Australian rules football
Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...
club playing in the West Australian Football League
West Australian Football League
The West Australian Football League is an Australian rules football league based in Perth, Western Australia. The WAFL is the second-most popular in the state, behind the nation-wide Australian Football League...
(WAFL). The club plays its matches at Lathlain Park.
History
Formed in 1899, Perth is the fourth-oldest of the nine WAFL clubs. The club played its early football in the Perth First Rate Junior Competition before replacing Rovers mid-way during the 1899 WAFL season after Rovers was unable to continue.Perth remained competitive for the following decade despite a brief lapse that saw them fall to last in 1912. In the 1915 Grand Final they dominated against Subiaco
Subiaco Football Club
The Subiaco Football Club, nicknamed the Lions, is an Australian rules football club in the West Australian Football League . It was founded in 1896, and admitted to the WAFL in 1901, along with North Fremantle...
but could not convert, losing a low-scoring game 2.7 (19) to 3.3 (21). During the war years Perth continued to be prominent, finishing third in each of 1916, 1917 and 1918, but following the end of the war the club was to have a long period in the doldrums. In the twenty-five open-age seasons from 1919 to 1946 Perth played in the finals only three times for just one win over East Perth in 1934 - a record made much worse by the fact that for over half that period more than half of the teams would play off. From 1921 to 1923 the club suffered the ignominy of a hat-trick of wooden spoons, and though it became more competitive in the ensuing decade only in 1927, 1934 and 1939 did it win more games than it lost.
Postwar power and relocation
Despite its failures at senior level up to 1946, Perth had considerable success in the wartime under-age competition from 1942 to 1944, and this group of players allowed the club to become finals regulars along with , and from 1947 to 1951. Perth eventually settled as third in the WAFL pecking order during this period, and surprisingly even took a minor premiership in 1949 and made its first grand final for thirty-four years, only to lose to a more hardened West Perth. In 1950 they reversed this results against the Cardinals but lost narrowly to an inaccurate South Fremantle in the grand final.The next four years saw Perth decline somewhat, winning only six games in 1952 and being unconvincing against the might of South Fremantle and West Perth in the other three seasons. However, with champion ruckman Merv McIntosh
Merv McIntosh
Mervyn Francis "Merv" McIntosh was an Australian rules footballer in the West Australian National Football League...
desperate to see his team with a premiership, Perth under experienced former Carlton
Carlton Football Club
The Carlton Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria. The club competes in the Australian Football League, and was one of the eight founding members of that competition in 1897...
centreman Ern Henfry and captain Keith Harper, improved in 1955 to win fourteen of twenty minor round games and defeat the Cardinals in the first semi-final. They then upset South by twelve points and came back on a windy day to defeat East Fremantle by two points in the 1955 WANFL Grand Final
1955 WANFL Grand Final
-Notes: This is the crowd figure according to the West Australian Football League. Other sources give attendances of 41,962 and 38,962....
for their first premiership in forty-eight years. McIntosh crowned his last game winning the Simpson Medal
Simpson Medal
The Simpson Medal, a prize for Australian rules football, has been donated by Dr. Fred Simpson and family since 1945. It is awarded to the best player in a WAFL Grand Final and the best player in an interstate game involving Western Australia....
for best on field.
In the following four years Perth remained a force - most notably in nearly keeping East Perth goalless on a rain-drenched WACA in early 1956 - but could never overcome the Royals or East Fremantle in the finals. In order to draw closer to their metropolitan recruiting zone on the southern side of the Swan River
Swan River (Western Australia)
The Swan River estuary flows through the city of Perth, in the south west of Western Australia. Its lower reaches are relatively wide and deep, with few constrictions, while the upper reaches are usually quite narrow and shallow....
, the club moved in 1959 to a new home at Lathlain Park. Their first game there was on Anzac Day
ANZAC Day
Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand, commemorated by both countries on 25 April every year to honour the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps who fought at Gallipoli in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. It now more broadly commemorates all...
and they beat Swan Districts, but that year ended ingloriously against Subiaco
Subiaco Football Club
The Subiaco Football Club, nicknamed the Lions, is an Australian rules football club in the West Australian Football League . It was founded in 1896, and admitted to the WAFL in 1901, along with North Fremantle...
- for years the WAFL’s “chopping block” - who in their first final since Perth’s rise to power in 1947 kicked an amazing 16.8 (104) in the third quarter. Perth took a while to recover from this caning and finished seventh, sixth and sixth in the following three seasons, but aided by a vigorous junior football council and strong support from local businesses, the Demons soon returned as a force despite twice failing in the finals in 1963 and 1964 and dropping to fifth in 1965 with ten wins from twenty-one games.
The appointment of Malcolm Atwell as captain-coach in 1966 was at first controversial, but with such young players as Barry Cable
Barry Cable
Barry Cable is an Australian former Australian rules footballer who played in the West Australian National Football League and Victorian Football League . Cable played as a rover. He won the Sandover Medal three times while playing with the Perth Football Club.-Club career:Cable played 225 games...
, Perth more than fulfilled the most sanguine expectations. The Demons thrashed South Fremantle by 143 points in the opening game and from then on were always the team to beat, scoring a 16-point win over East Perth in the 1966 Grand Final. The next year, in 1967, the same clubs played off with a similar result – with the margin stretched to 18 points. Then in 1968 it was Perth, again over East Perth, by 24 points. In each case Perth was led by Atwell, with Cable collecting three Simpson Medals for brilliant best-on-ground roving performances. In 1970 the Demons were favoured to win a fourth flag in five years, but were convincingly upset by South Fremantle despite having more scoring shots.
1970s
1971, despite the return of Barry CableBarry Cable
Barry Cable is an Australian former Australian rules footballer who played in the West Australian National Football League and Victorian Football League . Cable played as a rover. He won the Sandover Medal three times while playing with the Perth Football Club.-Club career:Cable played 225 games...
from North Melbourne
North Melbourne Football Club
The North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Kangaroos, is the fourth oldest Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League and is one of the oldest sporting clubs in Australia and the world...
where he had transferred in 1970, saw Perth decline abruptly to seventh or eight with only eight wins and a draw, and after a return to third in 1972, Cable’s last year with the club in 1973 saw them win only six games (their worst year since 1941 when they only won four games). Perth, however, rebounded under the coaching of former captain and 1955 premiership player Ken Armstrong. He took that year's team, skippered by the versatile Bob Shields, into the Grand Final. Though wingman David Pretty won the Simpson Medal, Perth failed against East Fremantle, and missed the finals in 1975. However, despite not being perfectl consistent during the home-and-away round, the Demons under new captain Colin Lofts clicked when it counted, taking out the 1976 Grand Final by 23 points, again at the expense of East Perth. Courageous defender, Mal Day, won the Simpson Medal for an outstanding game. It just got better for the Demons, with the team dominating in 1977, capping the season off with a record 26–13 (169) winning score against East Fremantle. Ruckman Wim Rosbender marked his best season, winning the Simpson Medal.
Armstrong and new captain Ken Inman had high hopes of another premiership hat-trick with big wins during the 1978 season. Their goal was denied by just two points in a grand final marred by very wet conditions.
Long-term decline
After three decades among the WAFL elite, Perth declined abruptly in 1979, winning only eight games of twenty-one and finishing a distant sixth. The departure of Armstrong to Subiaco in 1980 only made things worse: between 1980 and 1985 Perth never improved upon 1979’s sixth place and won only 28 of its 126 games. The recruitment of proven coach Mal BrownMal Brown
Malcolm "Mal" Brown is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League and West Australian National Football League....
that year was hoped to return the Demons to a WAFL power, but after finishing third in 1986 the club was devastated by the loss of players to new VFL
Australian Football League
The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...
club West Coast
West Coast Eagles
The West Coast Eagles are an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League. The club is based in Perth, Western Australia. The club was founded in 1986 and played its first games in the 1987 season. Its current home ground is Subiaco Oval...
and fell back down the ladder, ultimately taking wooden spoons in 1993 and 1994 and not being able to stay far from the bottom.
Despite an inglorious start with its lowest score since 1952 against Swan Districts
Swan Districts Football Club
The Swan Districts Football Club, nicknamed the Swans, is an Australian rules football club playing in the West Australian Football League . The club is based at Bassendean Oval, in Bassendean, an eastern suburb of Perth, Western Australia...
, 1997 saw the Demons play consistently enough to record their best home-and-away performance for nineteen years, missing out on the double chance by only five percent from East Fremantle. The manner in which the Demons reversed a last round loss to East Perth by eleven goals in the first semi final might have made people think a grand final berth at the very least was forthcoming, but South Fremantle put paid to that with a six goal win in the preliminary final and Perth soon returned to the basement - competing with new club Peel for the wooden spoon during most of the 2000s. In 2000, indeed, Perth were very lucky not to have their first winless season, beating Swan Districts in the final round. Even improvements to a 50/50 win/loss ratio in 2002 and 2004 were very brief: in 2005 the club won only three games; and more recently the recruitment of their first high-profile coach since Mal Brown in former North Adelaide, Norwood
Norwood Football Club
Norwood Football Club, nicknamed, Redlegs, is an Australian rules football club belonging to the South Australian National Football League in the state of South Australia...
and Adelaide Crows
Adelaide Crows
The Adelaide Football Club, nicknamed The Crows, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Adelaide, South Australia, playing in the Australian Football League ....
champion Andrew Jarman
Andrew Jarman
Andrew Newton Jarman is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Adelaide in the Australian Football League...
collapsed completely after a promising 2009 season: the Demons won only two games in 2010 for their thirteenth wooden spoon.
Club Honours
WAFL Premierships: (7 total) 1907, 1955, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1976, 1977Runners Up: (10 total) 1904, 1908, 1909, 1913, 1915, 1949, 1950, 1970, 1974, 1978
Reserves Premierships : (12 total) 1925, 1949, 1955, 1957, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1988, 1996
Colts Premierships: (8 total) 1959, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1972, 1999
Rodriguez Shield: (4 total) 1963, 1964, 1968, 1978
Wooden spoons: (13 total) 1900, 1912, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1935, 1981, 1984, 1993, 1994, 2000, 2007, 2010
Individual Honours
Sandover Medalists: (16 total) 1921: Cyril HoftCyril Hoft
Pte. Cyril Louis Hoft was an Australian soldier and Australian rules footballer who played for and in the West Australian Football League and Glenelg in the South Australian Football League...
, 1943: Terry Moriarty
Terry Moriarty
Terrence Brian "Terry" Moriarty was a soldier and Australian rules footballer who played with the Perth Football Club in the West Australian National Football League...
, 1945: George Bailey
George Bailey (footballer)
George Allan Bailey was an Australian rules footballer who played for Carlton in the VFL during the 1940s. He also played with Perth in the WANFL....
, 1948: Merv McIntosh
Merv McIntosh
Mervyn Francis "Merv" McIntosh was an Australian rules footballer in the West Australian National Football League...
, 1953: Merv McIntosh
Merv McIntosh
Mervyn Francis "Merv" McIntosh was an Australian rules footballer in the West Australian National Football League...
, 1954: Merv McIntosh
Merv McIntosh
Mervyn Francis "Merv" McIntosh was an Australian rules footballer in the West Australian National Football League...
, 1961: Neville Beard
Neville Beard
Neville Beard was an Australian rules footballer who played with Perth in the WANFL from 1956 to 1963.Beard played mostly as a ruck-rover and in defence. He won the Sandover Medal in 1961, beating Ray Sorrell on a countback. Beard represented Western Australia just once in his career, against South...
, 1964: Barry Cable
Barry Cable
Barry Cable is an Australian former Australian rules footballer who played in the West Australian National Football League and Victorian Football League . Cable played as a rover. He won the Sandover Medal three times while playing with the Perth Football Club.-Club career:Cable played 225 games...
, 1968: Barry Cable
Barry Cable
Barry Cable is an Australian former Australian rules footballer who played in the West Australian National Football League and Victorian Football League . Cable played as a rover. He won the Sandover Medal three times while playing with the Perth Football Club.-Club career:Cable played 225 games...
, 1970: Pat Dalton
Pat Dalton
Pat Dalton is a former Australian rules footballer who played 217 games for Perth in the WANFL from 1960 to 1971. He was named on the interchange bench in Perth's official 'Team of the Century'....
, 1972: Ian Miller
Ian Miller (Australian footballer)
Ian Miller is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Fitzroy in the VFL. He also played with Perth and East Perth in the WANFL and appeared in 15 interstate matches for Western Australia....
, 1973: Barry Cable
Barry Cable
Barry Cable is an Australian former Australian rules footballer who played in the West Australian National Football League and Victorian Football League . Cable played as a rover. He won the Sandover Medal three times while playing with the Perth Football Club.-Club career:Cable played 225 games...
, 1983: Bryan Cousins
Bryan Cousins
Bryan Cousins is a former Australian rules footballer who played over 300 games in the Victorian Football League and West Australian Football League competitions....
1983, 1987: Mark Watson, 1999: Gus Seebeck
Gus Seebeck
Gus Seebeck is a former Australian rules footballer who played for and in the West Australian Football League/Westar Rules , and the East Coast Eagles in the AFL Sydney....
, 2009: Ross Young
Ross Young
Ross Young is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Perth Football Club in the West Australian Football League, after previously playing with the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League....
Bernie Naylor Medalists: (11 total) 1913: Alf Halliday (46), 1914: Alf Halliday (38), 1916: Alf Halliday (38), 1921: Allan Evans
Allan Evans (Australian sportsman)
Walter Allan Evans was an Australian sportsman who played first-class cricket for Western Australia and Australian rules football for Perth in the West Australian Football League .-Biography:...
(64), 1931: Doug Oliphant
Doug Oliphant
Douglas "Doug" Oliphant was an Australian rules footballer who played with Perth in the Western Australian National Football League and Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League ....
(84), 1939: Albert Gook (102), 1950: Ron Tucker
Ron Tucker
Ronald Douglas "Ron" Tucker was an Australian rules footballer who played for and in the Western Australian National Football League .-Career:...
(115), 1975: Murray Couper
Murray Couper
Murray Stephen Couper is a former Australian rules football player best known for playing for Perth in the Western Australian National Football League.-Playing career:...
(63), 1985: Mick Rea
Mick Rea
Michael 'Mick' Rea is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne in the Victorian Football League and Perth in the West Australian Football League ....
(100), 1986: Mick Rea
Mick Rea
Michael 'Mick' Rea is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne in the Victorian Football League and Perth in the West Australian Football League ....
(90), 1994: Brenton Cooper (90)
All Australians:(7 total) 1953: erv McIntosh, 1956: Keith Harper
Keith Harper
Keith Harper was an Australian rules footballer who played for Perth in the West Australian National Football League during the late 1940s and 1950s. His younger brother Roy also played with the club.-WANFL:...
, 1966 & 1969: Barry Cable
Barry Cable
Barry Cable is an Australian former Australian rules footballer who played in the West Australian National Football League and Victorian Football League . Cable played as a rover. He won the Sandover Medal three times while playing with the Perth Football Club.-Club career:Cable played 225 games...
, 1969: Greg Brehaut
Greg Brehaut
Greg Brehaut is a former Australian rules footballer who played 157 games for Perth in the WANFL during the 1960s and early 1970s.Brehaut, a physically aggressive wingman, was with Perth from 1965 to 1973. Over this time he was part of a strong Perth side and played in their 1966, 1967 and 1968...
, 1972: Ian Miller
Ian Miller (Australian footballer)
Ian Miller is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Fitzroy in the VFL. He also played with Perth and East Perth in the WANFL and appeared in 15 interstate matches for Western Australia....
, 1986: Robert Wiley
Robert Wiley
Robert John Wiley is a former Australian rules footballer who played with in the Western Australian National Football League / West Australian Football League and Richmond and West Coast in the Victorian Football League .-Career:Born in Perth, and educated at Scotch College, Wiley was zoned to ...
Tassie Medallists: (2 total) 1953: Merv McIntosh
Merv McIntosh
Mervyn Francis "Merv" McIntosh was an Australian rules footballer in the West Australian National Football League...
, 1966: Barry Cable
Barry Cable
Barry Cable is an Australian former Australian rules footballer who played in the West Australian National Football League and Victorian Football League . Cable played as a rover. He won the Sandover Medal three times while playing with the Perth Football Club.-Club career:Cable played 225 games...
Records
Highest Score: Round 12, 1977 - 30.18 (192) vs. West Perth at Lathlain ParkLowest Score: Round 10, 1903 - 0.3 (3) vs. East Fremantle at Fremantle Oval
Greatest Winning Margin: Round 15, 1904 - 153 points vs. Subiaco
Subiaco Football Club
The Subiaco Football Club, nicknamed the Lions, is an Australian rules football club in the West Australian Football League . It was founded in 1896, and admitted to the WAFL in 1901, along with North Fremantle...
at WACA
Greatest Losing Margin: Round 17, 1981 - 173 points vs. Claremont
Claremont Football Club
The Claremont Football Club, nicknamed the Tigers, is an Australian rules football club in the West Australian Football League . Its official colours are navy blue and gold....
at Claremont Oval
Most Games: Terry Moriarty 253 (1942-1953)
Record Home Attendance: Round 6, 1967 - 19,541 v East Perth
Record Finals Attendance: 1966 Grand Final - 46,763 v East Perth at Subiaco Oval
Longest Winning Streak: 14 games, from Round 12, 1968 to Round 2, 1969 (including 1968 premiership)
Longest Losing Streak: 20 games, from Round 20, 1999 to Round 20, 2000
(21 games without win from Round 7, 1922 to Round 13, 1923)
Notable players
12 separate Perth players have won the Sandover MedalSandover Medal
The Sandover Medal is an Australian rules football award, given annually since 1921 to the fairest and best player in the West Australian Football League...
for best and fairest
Best and Fairest
Best and Fairest is the term commonly used in Australian sport to describe the player adjudged to have had the best performance in a game or over a season for a given sporting club or competition while not receiving a suspension for misconduct or breaching the rules during that season.In the...
player in the WAFL including two players, Merv McIntosh and Barry Cable, who have won the medal three times.
Current AFL players who originated from the Perth Football Club include Lance Franklin
Lance Franklin
Lance "Buddy" Franklin, Jr is a professional Australian rules footballer currently playing for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League . Nicknamed 'Buddy', Franklin primarily plays as a centre half-forward, but also spends some time in the midfield, where he plays along the wing...
, Chance Bateman
Chance Bateman
Chance Bateman is an Australian rules footballer who currently plays for Hawthorn in the Australian Football League ....
, Leon Davis
Leon Davis (footballer)
Leon Davis is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.Drafted to Collingwood in 1999 as a small forward, Davis is of Aboriginal heritage. Davis made an early impression at the Pies and played Round 1 in his debut season. He showed that he was capable of turning a match but...
, Darren Glass
Darren Glass
Darren Glass is an Australian rules footballer for the AFL's West Coast Eagles. He wears number 23 guernsey.He was recruited as the number 11 draft pick in the 1999 AFL Draft from Perth...
, Steven Armstrong
Steven Armstrong
Steven Armstrong is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League who is currently without a club. He has played for the Melbourne Football Club and the West Coast Eagles....
, Scott Stevens
Scott Stevens
Ronald Scott Stevens is a retired professional ice hockey defenceman. Stevens played 22 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Washington Capitals, St. Louis Blues, and the New Jersey Devils...
, Damon White, Brennan Stack, Mark Coughlan
Mark Coughlan
Mark Coughlan is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League from 2001 to 2009.-Early career:...
, Ryan Hargrave
Ryan Hargrave
Ryan Hargrave is a player in the AFL who was drafted with pick 66 in 1999. He is a defender on the field and is quite versatile within the back line. He usually takes the second best opposition forward and usually does a good job restricting him. Hargrave on occasion sneaks forward to kick a few...
, Michael Johnson
Michael Johnson (Australian rules footballer)
Michael Johnson is an Australian rules footballer for the Fremantle Dockers. Recruited from Perth Football Club in the WAFL with selection 8 in the 2004 Preseason Draft, he is a graduate of the Clontarf Football Academy...
, Sharrod Wellingham
Sharrod Wellingham
Sharrod Wellingham is a professional Australian rules football player currently playing for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League....
and more recently Chris Mayne
Chris Mayne
Christopher Mayne is an Australian rules footballer for the Fremantle Football Club. He was selected with the 40th selection in the 2007 AFL National Draft from the Perth Football Club in the WAFL. He plays full forward, forward-pocket and half-forward.Mayne spent most of the 2006 season...
and David Myers.