Name Harry Lever 1905-1922 St Kilda | Years Club Height/Weight 178cm / 76 kg | |
Date of birth (1886-01-05)5 January 1886 Date of death 19 July 1970(1970-07-19) (aged 84) | ||
Original team(s) Brighton / Elwood | ||
Harry 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.
His total of 218 games for St Kilda, including the 1913 VFL Grand Final, stood as a record until it was broken by Ross Smith in 1972.
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