Happy 60th Birthday to Peter Fyffe!
Career : 1970 – 1973
Debut : Round 10, 1970 v Footscray
822nd Carlton Player
Games : 19
Goals : 1
Last game : Round 5, 1973 v Fitzroy
Guernsey No. 44 (1970-’71) & 24 (1972-’73)
Height : 183 cm
Weight : 76 kg
DOB : August 22, 1951
Wearing guernsey #24 after starting in #44, Fyffe played 19 games for Carlton commencing in Season 1970. He kicked a solitary goal for the Blues in Round 9, 1972. He was recruited from Newstead in Carlton’s country zone and won the Reserves Best First Year Player in 1970 and then won Carlton’s Reserve Best and Fairest Awards in 1971 and 1972.
He also was awarded with the Carlton Supporters Most Consistent awards for these two seasons. Peter was cleared early in the 1974 season to Cooee in Tasmania with fellow Blue John Warden for Greg Towns. Both of these players flew over to Cooee in the morning of the matches during 1974.