Percy Beames

Percy Beames
Personal information
Full name	Percy James Beames
Date of birth	(1911-07-27)27 July 1911
Place of birth	Ballarat, Victoria
Date of death	28 March 2004(2004-03-28) (aged 92)
Place of death	Melbourne
Original team(s)	Golden Point (Ballarat)
Height	165 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	70 kg (154 lb)
Position(s)	Rover
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1931–1944	Melbourne	213 (323)
Coaching career
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
1942–1944	Melbourne	48 (19–29–0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1944.
Career highlights
3× VFL premierships: 1939, 1940, 1941 Melbourne captain: 1942–1944 Melbourne Team of the Century–forward-pocket Australian Football Hall of Fame, inducted 1996 Melbourne Hall of Fame
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Percy James Beames (27 July 1911 – 28 March 2004) was an Australian sportsman who played Australian rules football for the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) as well as first-class cricket for Victoria in the Sheffield Shield. He later became one of Melbourne's most distinguished sports journalists, covering cricket and Australian rules football for The Age until 1976. When the Australian Football Hall of Fame was established in 1996, Beames was among the inaugural inductees, and was also named in the forward pocket when Melbourne's Team of the Century was named in June 2000.