Full name Cyril Leonard Gambetta Height/Weight 180 cm / 80 kg Date of birth 1 August 1899 Name Cyril Gambetta | Weight 80 kg | |
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Date of death 20 August 1974(1974-08-20) (aged 75) Role Australian Rules Footballer Died August 20, 1974, Elwood, Melbourne, Australia | ||
Original team Sandhurst Football Club | ||
Cyril Leonard Gambetta (1 August 1899 – 20 August 1974) was an Italian-Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Due to having suffered from polio as a child he had badly bowed legs which gave him an awkward running style.
Gambetta came to Melbourne from Sandhurst in Bendigo at the start of the 1921 season. After being refused a clearance to St Kilda, he joined Hawthorn Football Club in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) where he played as a forward. The next season, he joined St Kilda where he spent most of his time as a key position defender and was twice chosen to represent Victoria at interstate football. He won St Kilda's best player award in 1925 and finished equal sixth in the 1928 Brownlow Medal.