Roy Park (sportsman)

Roy Park
Personal information
Full name	Roy Lindsay Park
Nickname(s)	Little Doc
Date of birth	(1892-07-30)30 July 1892
Place of birth	Charlton, Victoria
Date of death	23 January 1947(1947-01-23) (aged 54)
Place of death	Middle Park, Victoria
Original team(s)	Wesley College, Melbourne
Height	165 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	56 kg (123 lb)
Position(s)	Forward
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1912–1914	University	44 (111)
1915	Melbourne	13 (35)
Total		57 (146)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1915.
Career highlights
VFL leading goalkicker 1913 University leading goalkicker 1912, 1913, 1914 Melbourne leading goalkicker 1915
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Roy Lindsay Park (30 July 1892, Charlton, Victoria – 23 January 1947, Middle Park, Victoria) was an all-round athlete and doctor. The son of a Methodist minister, he played cricket for Australia and also Australian rules football in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He was educated at Wesley College, Melbourne. Park also served in the Australian Imperial Force in World War I.

Park started his senior VFL career at University, making his debut in 1912. He had an immediate impact as the club's leading goal kicker with 22. Park's 53 goals in the 1913 VFL season was bettered only by Fitzroy's Jimmy Freake with 56. Park had medical studying commitments at Melbourne University in 1914, leaving him free for few games, but still managed to kick 36 goals for the season that was University's last in the VFL competition.

In 1915 Park played with VFL club Melbourne, where he kicked 35 goals in 13 games, but was suspended for four matches for striking Gerry Balme of St Kilda, despite three witnesses coming forward to say that Park had not hit the player at all. Park refused to play football again after his suspension, ending his VFL career with 146 goals in 57 matches. However, following the end of the war, Park returned to football, playing with Footscray Football Club, who were then a member of the Victorian Football Association (VFA). In the 1920 VFA second semi-final, Park won the match for Footscray against North Melbourne Football Club with a dramatic kick that dribbled through for a goal with less than ten seconds left on the clock.