Ray Wartman
Personal information
Date of birth 29 January 1915
Date of death 20 April 2008(2008-04-20) (aged 93)
Original team(s) Whorouly, Camberwell
Height 180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 84 kg (185 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1932–1934 Camberwell 31 (10)
1935–1942 Melbourne 125 (61)
Total 156 (71)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1942.
Career highlights
  • Camberwell Semi-final Team: 1932
  • VFL premiership 1939, 1940, 1941
  • Melbourne Semi-final Team: 1936, 1939, 1940, 1941
  • Melbourne Preliminary Final Team: 1936, 1940
  • Melbourne Grand Final Team: 1939, 1940, 1941
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Ray Wartman[1] (29 January 1915 – 20 April 2008)[2] was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the VFL.

Football

Wartman played with the Whorouly Football Club in the Ovens & King Football League in the early 1930s and commenced with his VFA career with the Camberwell Football Club in late 1932 during the final series. Wartman was cleared to Whorouly in early 1933.[3] Wartman then returned to Camberwell in 1934, before commencing with Melbourne in 1935,[4] winning the Best First Year Player award.

A wingman, Wartman was a member of Melbourne's successful side in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Wartman played in three consecutive premierships with Melbourne, in 1939, 1940, and 1941.

Athletics

Wartman won the 1937 Castlemaine Gift,[5] which elevated him as one of the pre-race favourites for the Stawell Gift,[6] but he came second in his heat.[7]

Golf

Wartman made the semi-finals of the 1954 Victorian Amateur Golf Championships.[8]

In 1955, Huntingdale Golf Club pair Bob Bull and Ray Wartman won the Australasian Foursomes Shield.[9]

Notes

  1. ^ "Wartman Family". Trove Newspapers. The Age. 1 September 1936. p. 1. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  2. ^ "Ray Wartman - Player Bio". Australian Football. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  3. ^ "1933 - VFL Permits List". Trove Newspapers. The Argus. 4 May 1933. p. 11. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  4. ^ "1935 - Transfers Granted". Trove Newspapers. The Argus. 27 March 1935. p. 11. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  5. ^ "1937 - Castlemaine Gift results". Trove Newspapers. The Age. 16 March 1937. p. 5. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  6. ^ "1937 - Stawell Favorites". Trove Newspapers. Weekly Times. 27 March 1927. p. 70. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  7. ^ "1937 - Stawell Gift results". Trove Newspapers. The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic). 3 April 1937. p. 24. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  8. ^ "1954 - Victorian Amateur Golf Title". Trove Newspapers. The Age. 5 June 1954. p. 12. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  9. ^ "1954 - Aistraliasian Golf Shield". Trove Newspapers. The Argus. 16 May 1955. p. 17. Retrieved 7 November 2020.

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