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{{Infobox AFL biography
| name = Percy Beames
| image = File:Percy Beames.jpg
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| caption = 
| fullname = Percy James Beames
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1911|7|27|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Ballarat]], Victoria
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2004|3|28|1911|7|27|df=yes}}
| death_place = Melbourne
| originalteam = [[Golden Point Football Club|Golden Point]] (Ballarat)
| height = 165&nbsp;cm
| weight = 70&nbsp;kg
| position = Rover
| statsend = 1944
| years1 = 1931–1944
| club1 = [[Melbourne Football Club|Melbourne]]
| games_goals1 = 213 (323)
| coachyears1 = 1942–1944
| coachclub1 = [[Melbourne Football Club|Melbourne]]
| coachgames_wins1 = 48 (19–29–0)
| careerhighlights = *3× [[Australian Football League|VFL]] premierships: [[1939 VFL Grand Final|1939]], [[1940 VFL Grand Final|1940]], [[1941 VFL Grand Final|1941]]
*{{AFL Mel}} [[List of Melbourne Football Club captains|captain]]: 1942–1944
*{{AFL Mel}} Team of the Century–<small>forward-pocket</small>
*[[Australian Football Hall of Fame]], inducted 1996
*[[Melbourne Football Club#Hall of Fame|Melbourne Hall of Fame]]
}}

'''Percy James Beames''' (27 July 1911 – 28 March 2004) was an [[Australians|Australian]] sportsman who played [[Australian rules football]] for the [[Melbourne Football Club]] in the [[Australian Football League|Victorian Football League]] (VFL) as well as [[first-class cricket]] for [[Victoria cricket team|Victoria]] in the [[Sheffield Shield]]. He later became one of Melbourne's most distinguished sports [[journalist]]s, 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.

==Early life==
Born to a large, poor family in Ballarat, Beames' lucky break came when he was awarded a scholarship to [[Ballarat Clarendon College|Ballarat College]].<ref>{{cite web|first=Greg|last=Baum|newspaper=[[The Age]]|url=https://www.theage.com.au/sport/percy-beames-a-man-for-all-seasons-20210129-p56xtl.html|title=Percy Beames: a man for all seasons|date=29 January 2021}}</ref> He ended up captaining the school in Australian football, cricket, athletics and tennis.

==Cricket career==
Beames became a member of the [[South Melbourne Cricket Club]] for the 1929/1930 season. In 1931 he moved to the [[Melbourne Cricket Club]]. Beames represented Victoria on 18 occasions between 1933 and 1946, scoring 1186 runs at 51.56. During this time he scored three first-class centuries with a highest score of 226 not out in 1938 at [[Launceston, Tasmania|Launceston]]. Beames was appointed captain of Victoria for the first post-war season in 1945. He, however, left cricket the year after this to concentrate on a career in football.

==Footballing career==
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Beames joined Melbourne in 1931 and soon established himself as the club's [[Football (Australian rules) positions|rover]]. In his first two seasons he polled well in the [[Brownlow Medal]], finishing equal fifth on both occasions. He was part of their hat-trick of premierships that went from 1939 to 1941 and captain-coached Melbourne from 1942 to 1944.

==Later life==
After finishing his football career he became a writer at ''[[The Age]]'' newspaper for 30 years. He was also inducted into the [[Australian Football Hall of Fame]].

Beames was the father of [[Adrienne Beames]], a former long-distance runner frequently credited as [[Marathon world record progression#Women|the first woman to break the three-hour barrier in the marathon]].<ref name="Beames">{{cite web |title=Untitled |url=http://www.ultralegends.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/beames2.jpg |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100107192628/http://www.ultralegends.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/beames2.jpg |archive-date=7 January 2010 |access-date=2009-06-03}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of Victoria first-class cricketers]]

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category}}
*{{AFL Tables}}
*{{AFL Tables coach ID}}
*{{Cricinfo|ref=australia/content/player/4336.html}}
*[http://demonwiki.org/Percy+Beames DemonWiki profile]
*[http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/03/29/1080544422408.html?from=storyrhs Obituary]

{{Melbourne Football Club Team of the Century}}
{{1939/40/41 Melbourne triple premiership players}}
{{Melbourne Football Club captains}}
{{Melbourne Football Club coaches}}

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