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Australian rules footballer, born 1951

Australian rules footballer
Peter Featherby
Personal information
Date of birth (1951-12-12) 12 December 1951 (age 73)
Original team(s) Wembley (WAAFL)
Height 183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 85 kg (187 lb)
Position(s) Midfielder
Playing career
Years Club Games (Goals)
1970–74, 1977–79, 1984–88 Subiaco 196 (181)
1975–76 Footscray 042 (15)
1979–83 Geelong 093 (79)
Total 331 (275)
Representative team honours
Years Team Games (Goals)
1973-1980 Western Australia 14 (7)
1980 Victoria 0 1
Playing statistics correct to the end of 1988.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Peter Featherby (born 12 December 1951) is a former Australian rules footballer. He began his senior career with Subiaco Football Club in the West Australian Football League (WAFL), but he also played with two Victorian Football League (VFL) clubs.

Featherby's first stint in the VFL was with the Footscray Football Club, where he lasted only two seasons before moving back to Subiaco.

Geelong encouraged him to return to the VFL in 1979 he moved to the club and won the Carji Greeves Medal in 1981. A prolific ball-winner, he had the second highest confirmed possession game of all time, gathering 43 kicks, 8 handballs and 12 marks against Melbourne in round 16, 1981. Other unconfirmed reports say Featherby amassed 55 possessions for Footscray in 1975 and 56 against Fitzroy in 1983. Featherby left VFL football in 1983, but continued to play for Subiaco for the next five seasons, including in their 1986 premiership side, 13 years after his first premiership.

He also played 15 interstate matches, 14 for Western Australia and one for Victoria in 1980. He was inducted into the West Australian Football Hall of Fame and named as Subiaco's Legend in 2007.

References

  1. These tallies refer to premiership matches (home-and-away and finals matches) only.
  2. Most disposals in a game; Footystats
  3. Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2002). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (4th ed.). Melbourne, Victoria: Crown Content. p. 193. ISBN 1-74095-001-1.
  4. Peter Featherby: Subiaco's Legend for 2007

External links

Subiaco Football Club – Team of the Century
Full-back
Half-back
Centre
Half-forward
Forward
Ruck
Interchange
Coach
selected in 2008
Simpson Medal winners
WAFL Grand Finals
Interstate Rep. Matches
Interstate Carnivals/Tours
Interstate Club Matches
  • 1946: Richards (Coll) (East Frem v Collingwood)
  • 1947: Jenkins (SF) (South Frem v Essendon)
Carji Greeves Medal · Geelong Football Club best and fairest winners
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