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Hi

David Kantilla is no the first NT Indigenous player to play in the SANFL. This was Henry Peckham who played six games with West Adelaide in 1950.

The League debut of Henry Peckham aboriginal rover from Alice Springs was an outstanding success. Amazingly fit he was still full of running after being in the thick of it all day. Peckham was adept in the play-on style and created the loose man intelligently in the forward lines. It was clear that opportunities were created for him but his natural ability to get the ball for himself and dispose of it to advantage stamped him as a fine footballer."

The Advertiser, 15 May 1950.

Peckham is discussed in detail in

Stephen, M., Colour Bar: Remembering and Forgetting NT Football, 1916-1955, CDU Press, Darwin, 2015.

203.222.144.185 (talk) 00:37, 27 April 2020 (UTC)DR Matthew Stephen