Harry Lever

Harry Lever
Harry Lever
	Lever in 1910
Personal information
Full name	Henry Hulm Lever
Date of birth	5 January 1886
Place of birth	Parramatta, New South Wales
Date of death	19 July 1970 (aged 84)
Place of death	Geelong West, Victoria
Original team(s)	Brighton / Elwood
Height	178 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	76 kg (168 lb)
Playing career1
	1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1922.
	Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

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).

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 but after attending to the wound himself, played for St Kilda the following afternoon.

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

His total of 218 games for St Kilda included the 1913 VFL Grand Final, and was the St. Kilda club record until it was broken by Ross Smith in 1972.[1]

References

It was believed at his retirement in 1926 that Wels Eicke held the record with 267 games, but writers and Australian Rules football historians Russell Holmesby & Jim Main discovered in 1967 that this total included 21 matches for North Melbourne, and 49 matches as playing coach had been double counted.

External links

Harry Lever's playing statistics from AFL Tables
Harry Lever at AustralianFootball.com

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[1] It was believed at his retirement in 1926 that Wels Eicke held the record with 267 games, but writers and Australian Rules football historians Russell Holmesby & Jim Main discovered in 1967 that this total included 21 matches for North Melbourne, and 49 matches as playing coach had been double counted.