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	179 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	94 kg (207 lb)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1992–1998	Essendon	092 (58)
1999	Brisbane Lions	009 0(2)
2000	Kangaroos	013 (10)
Total		114 (70)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2000.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

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, he won the E. J. Whitten Medal. For the Bombers, he played 92 games from the time of 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 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 a distance of 55 metres, effectively killing the game as a contest.

Statistics

Season	Team	No.	Games	Totals							Averages (per game)							Votes
				G	B	K	H	D	M	T	G	B	K	H	D	M	T
1992	Essendon	48	2	2	3	9	3	12	0	1	1.0	1.5	4.5	1.5	6.0	0.0	0.5	0
1993†	Essendon	48	11	10	14	80	63	143	25	15	0.9	1.3	7.3	5.7	13.0	2.3	1.4	0
1994	Essendon	14	17	13	13	176	113	289	46	33	0.8	0.8	10.4	6.6	17.0	2.7	1.9	3
1995	Essendon	14	17	9	10	168	74	242	42	14	0.5	0.6	9.9	4.4	14.2	2.5	0.8	3
1996	Essendon	14	16	7	13	141	50	191	24	19	0.4	0.8	8.8	3.1	11.9	1.5	1.2	1
1997	Essendon	14	8	4	3	69	55	124	27	6	0.5	0.4	8.6	6.9	15.5	3.4	0.8	0
1998	Essendon	14	21	13	10	264	112	376	92	24	0.6	0.5	12.6	5.3	17.9	4.4	1.1	8
1999	Brisbane Lions	48	9	2	0	63	21	84	18	4	0.2	0.0	7.0	2.3	9.3	2.0	0.4	0
2000	Kangaroos	17	13	10	3	53	43	96	14	19	0.8	0.2	4.1	3.3	7.4	1.1	1.5	0
Career			114	70	69	1023	534	1557	288	135	0.6	0.6	9.0	4.7	13.7	2.5	1.2	15

External links

• David Calthorpe's playing statistics from AFL Tables