Peter Cameron (umpire)

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Peter Peter Cameron (born 1951) is a former Australian rules football field umpire, who umpired 306 matches between 1977 and 1993 in the Australian Football League, including nineteen finals and three AFL Grand Final appearances. Since completing his umpiring career, he has continued to maintain a public presence through appearances in the E. J. Whitten Legends Game. He also worked at a school in Melbourne Victoria Australia called Wallarano Primary School.

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He retired from teaching in 2017.

Umpiring career

Cameron began his umpiring career in 1977, the 279th field umpire to participate in VFL/AFL football. [1] He quickly established a reputation as a fine umpire and practical joker, with one umpire remembering that he used to "cut the crotches out of our (underpants)." [2] After just two years as an umpire, he received his first taste of the big time, being selected to officiate the night Grand Final between Collingwood and Hawthorn. [3] It was another six years before he was appointed to his first day Grand Final, umpiring the Essendon-Hawthorn match of 1985. In all, Cameron officiated in three day Grand Finals (1985, 1986 and 1988) [4] and four night Grand Finals (1979, 1981, 1985 and 1988), and at least one VFA Grand Final. [5] Cameron finally retired in 1993, aged 42.

During his career, Cameron also won the Bishop Shield, an award given to the AFL Umpires' Association's most outstanding field umpire for the year. He received this award in 1985. [6]

Post umpiring

Cameron remained in the public eye due to his status as a long-serving umpire. He went on to work with a number of local football leagues in their umpiring departments, most notably and recently as Director of Umpires in the Yarra Valley Mountain District Football League. He has also appeared in several E.J. Whitten Legends Games, and has emerged as an outspoken critic of the bounce in football. [7] He was also

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References

  1. ↑ "Heritage numbers". AFL Umpires Association. Archived from the original on 1 March 2011. Retrieved 12 April 2011.
  2. ↑ Hardy, Tony (15 November 2003). "Straight shooting and it's . . . all clear". The Age . Retrieved 12 April 2011.
  3. ↑ "Night Grand Finals". AFL Umpires Association. Archived from the original on 1 March 2011. Retrieved 12 April 2011.
  4. ↑ "Grand Finala". AFL Umpires Association. Archived from the original on 1 March 2011. Retrieved 12 April 2011.
  5. ↑ Recorder, Victorian Football Association, 24 September 1989, p. 5
  6. ↑ "Bishop Shield winners". AFL Umpires Association. Archived from the original on 1 March 2011. Retrieved 12 April 2011.
  7. ↑ McClure, Geoff (25 May 2005). "Oh, my back..." The Age . Retrieved 12 April 2011.
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