{{short description|Australian rules footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=September 2015}} {{Infobox AFL biography | name = Ray Martini | image = | fullname = Harold Raymond Martini | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1930|07|14|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | originalteam = Flemington | height = 180 cm | weight = 82.5 kg | position = | statsend = 1954 | years1 = 1950–52 | club1 = {{AFL Ess}} | games_goals1 = 13 (1) | years2 = 1953 | club2 = {{AFL Car}} | games_goals2 = {{0}}7 (0) | years3 = 1954–55 | club3 = Williamstown (VFA) | games_goals3 = 10 (6) | games_goalstotal = | careerhighlights = }} '''Ray Martini''' (born 14 July 1930) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton and Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).<ref>Holmesby & Main (2009), p.524.</ref>
==Family== Although there are suggestions that this "Martini" is the son of the former Geelong footballer, Percy Martini,<ref>For instance, at: [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article22914000 Club-Room Gossip, ''The Argus'', (Monday, 3 July 1950), p.15.]</ref> the fact that Percy Martini's wife, May Victoria Martini (1887–1928), née Machar, died some two years before Ray Martini's birth, and that there's no record of Percy Martini ever remarrying (or, in contrast, being the father of an extra-marital child) seems to indicate that there's no substance to these claims.
==Football== ===Williamstown (VFA)=== He played with Williamstown for two seasons: 1954 and 1955<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article70701102 Football Statistics for Season 1954, ''The Williamstown Chronicle'', (Thursday, 23 December 1954), p.7.]</ref><ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71883491 V.F.A. Teams Named: Wil'stown v. M'abbin, ''The Argus'', (Friday, 20 May 1955), p.25.]</ref> totalling 10 senior games and kicking 6 goals.
== Notes == {{reflist}}
==References== * Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2009), ''The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (8th ed.)'', Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. {{ISBN|978-1-921496-00-4}} * Maplestone, M., ''Flying Higher: History of the Essendon Football Club 1872–1996'', Essendon Football Club, (Melbourne), 1996. {{ISBN|0-9591740-2-8}} * [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article187639927 Premiers tune up for League opening, ''The Age'', (Saturday, 8 April 1926), p.26.]
== External links == * {{AFL Tables}} * {{AustralianFootball}} * [http://www.thevfaproject.org/pages/Players/Martini,_Ray.php Ray Martini's playing statistics] from The VFA Project * [https://blueseum.org/Ray_Martini Ray Martini's profile] at Blueseum
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