Peter Caven

Peter Caven
Personal information
Full name	Peter Caven
Date of birth	16 May 1970
Original team(s)	Montmorency (DVFL)
Height/Weight	190 cm / 85 kg
Playing career^1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1991–1993 1994–1995 1996–2000 Total	Fitzroy Sydney Adelaide	039 (17) 018 0(4) 082 (34) 139 (55)
^1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2000 season.

Peter Caven (born 16 May 1970) is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League. He played initially as a nagging, sometimes ungainly but effective defender and built on this base to become a sweeping counterattacking central defender. He began his career at Fitzroy before playing at the Sydney Swans and finally at Adelaide where he was a 2-time premiership player.

Caven was the victim of an infamous act of AFL thuggery when St Kilda's Tony Lockett struck him viciously in the face and broke his cheek-bone during a game in 1994. Lockett was handed a heavy suspension of eight weeks for the incident. In an absurd twist, Caven was forced to issue an apology to Lockett the following week after appearing on comedy television show Denton and, at the urging of host Andrew Denton, bashing an effigy of Lockett with a baseball bat.^[1] The following season, Caven and Lockett were team-mates at Sydney.^[2]

Statistics

^[3]

Legend
G	Goals	B	Behinds	K	Kicks	H	Handballs	D	Disposals	M	Marks	T	Tackles

Season	Team	#	Games	G	B	K	H	D	M	T	G	B	K	H	D	M	T
			Totals								Averages (per game)
1991	Fitzroy	50	8	8	4	43	27	70	13	5	1.0	0.5	5.4	3.4	8.8	1.6	0.6
1992	Fitzroy	22	22	6	10	179	65	244	74	35	0.3	0.5	8.1	3.0	11.1	3.4	1.6
1993	Fitzroy	22	9	3	2	43	47	90	23	12	0.3	0.2	4.8	5.2	10.0	2.6	1.3
1994	Sydney	26	9	3	2	41	31	72	19	11	0.3	0.2	4.6	3.4	8.0	2.1	1.2
1995	Sydney	26	9	1	1	45	20	65	24	3	0.1	0.1	5.0	2.2	7.2	2.7	0.3
1996	Adelaide	44	20	17	19	143	85	228	90	18	0.9	1.0	7.2	4.3	11.4	4.5	0.9
1997†	Adelaide	44	22	6	9	264	94	358	116	30	0.3	0.4	12.0	4.3	16.3	5.3	1.4
1998†	Adelaide	44	24	9	7	219	75	294	99	43	0.4	0.3	9.1	3.1	12.3	4.1	1.8
1999	Adelaide	44	8	0	3	48	26	74	20	10	0.0	0.4	6.0	3.3	9.3	2.5	1.3
2000	Adelaide	44	8	2	2	48	32	80	17	12	0.3	0.3	6.0	4.0	10.0	2.1	1.5
Career			139	55	59	1073	502	1575	495	179	0.4	0.4	7.7	3.6	11.3	3.6	1.3

Honors

• 1997 Premiership Player
• 1998 Premiership Player^[2]

References

1. Stephen Linnell (24 May 1994). "Lockett, Swans offer apologies". The Age (Melbourne, VIC). p. 50.
2. Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2003). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (5th ed.). Melbourne, Victoria: Crown Content. p. 109. ISBN 1-74095-032-1.
3. Peter Caven's player profile at AFL Tables