David Calthorpe

David Calthorpe
Personal information
Full name	David Calthorpe
Date of birth	(1973-08-17) 17 August 1973
Original team(s)	East Keilor
Height/Weight	179 cm / 94 kg
Position(s)	Midfielder
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1992–1998 1999 2000 Total	Essendon Brisbane Lions Kangaroos	092 (58) 009 0(2) 013 (10) 114 (70)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 2000 season.

David Calthorpe (born 17 August 1973) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Essendon, the Brisbane Lions and the Kangaroos in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Calthorpe was an on-baller and in his first ever State of Origin game for Victoria won the E. J. Whitten Medal. For the Bombers he played 92 games from his debut in 1992, winning a premiership medal in his second season. He was picked up by Brisbane at pick one in the 1999 Pre-Season Draft but only played 9 games for the club before moving to the Kangaroos in 2000 for what turned out to be his final season of football.

He is best remembered for a superb solo play late in the third quarter of the 1993 AFL Grand Final where he collected the ball from the centre bounce and within 10 seconds had goaled from 55 metres out, effectively killing the game as a contest.

External links

David Calthorpe's statistics from AFL Tables

Essendon Football Club 1993 AFL premiers

Essendon 20.13 (133) defeated Carlton 13.11 (89), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground

1. Harvey 2. Mercuri 3. Salmon 4. Wanganeen 5. Hird 7. Daniher 8. Bewick 10. O'Donnell 11. Hills 13. Long 19. Somerville 21. Wallis 24. Misiti 26. Thompson (c) 29. Grenvold 31. Fletcher 32. Watson 38. Denham 47. Olarenshaw 48. Calthorpe

Coach: Sheedy

E. J. Whitten Medal winners

1985: Roos (v WA)
1986: Weightman (v WA)/Walsh (v SA)
1987: G.Williams (v WA)/Langford (v SA)
1988: Roos (Carnival)/Healy (v WA)
1989: G.Brown (v SA)/Dunstall (v WA)
1990: S.Madden (v WA)/Weightman (v NSW)
1991: Mitchell (v WA)/Ezard (v SA)
1992: Loewe (v WA)/R.Harvey (v SA)
1993: Langford (v NSW/ACT)/R.Harvey (v SA)
1994: Calthorpe (v SA)
1995: Lockett (v SA)
1996: R.Harvey (v Allies)
1997: G.Brown (v SA)
1998: R.Smith (v Allies)
1999: B.Harvey (v SA)

Victorian team – 1994 State of Origin

Ablett Barnes Boyd Brown Burke Calthorpe Cameron Collins Frawley Grant Hanna Harvey Hocking Hogg Langford Lyon (c) Mercuri Neitz Sholl Silvagni Stynes Tingay

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