On Sunday against Richmond in the Elimination Final at the MCG, Curnow becomes Carlton’s 310th player to play 50 games, and the 119th youngest.

Curnow has missed 19 Carlton games since his debut in Round 1, 2011 against Richmond at the MCG (in a ‘home’ game on Thursday night when aged 21 years and 136 days old). He is the 1129th player to represent Carlton at senior level since the formation of the League in 1897. He was originally recruited to Adelaide from the Geelong Falcons U18s side with his previous clubs being Geelong College and Modewarre, Gary Ablett Junior’s original club.

Fremantle’s Clancee Pearce is the only other League footballer to have played 50 games as a rookie, but over a four-year period before being elevated to the senior list at the end of 2012.

Other Carlton players to play over 15 games as a Rookie are Jeff Garlett (30 games), Aaron Joseph (23 games), Jon McCormick and Michael Jamison (both 21 games), Jordan Doering (18 games) and Jim Plunkett (15 games).

Of the 19 players to wear No.35 in a Carlton senior game (beginning with Jack Vale in 1925), Curnow will be Carlton’s third player to play 50 games wearing the number behind Jack Conley (135 games and 104 goals) and Peter Dean (248 games and 41 goals).

Curnow will be the second Carlton player behind Ron De Iulio to play 50 games after being recruited from Box Hill.  De Iulio played 104 games in total for Carlton between 1992 and 1999. The only other Carlton senior players who previously turned out for Box Hill are the late Harvey Dunn jun., the first player recruited under the father/son rule, Laurence Angwin, Stephen Kenna and Les Husband.