|| |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1972 |style="text-align:center;"| | 6 || 20 || bgcolor="DD6E81"| 130 || 53 || 225 || 23 || 248 || 132 || || bgcolor="DD6E81"| 6.5 || 2.7 || 11.3 || 1.2 || 12.4 || 6.6 || |- style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1973 |style="text-align:center;"| | 6 || 20 || bgcolor="DD6E81"| 86 || 42 || 179 || 17 || 196 || 113 || || bgcolor="DD6E81"| 4.3 || 2.1 || 9.0 || 0.9 || 9.8 || 5.7 || |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1974 |style="text-align:center;"| | 6 || 18 || 69 || 34 || 138 || 14 || 152 || 85 || || 3.8 || 1.9 || 7.7 || 0.8 || 8.4 || 4.7 || |- style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1975 |style="text-align:center;"| | 6 || 10 || 26 || 14 || 59 || 11 || 70 || 31 || || 2.6 || 1.6 || 6.6 || 1.2 || 7.8 || 3.4 || |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1977 |style="text-align:center;"| | 27 || 11 || 36 || 23 || 89 || 10 || 99 || 41 || || 3.3 || 2.1 || 8.1 || 0.9 || 9.0 || 3.7 || |- class="sortbottom" ! colspan=3| Career ! 191 ! 874 ! 470 ! 2012 ! 232 ! 2244 ! 1114 ! ! 4.6 ! 2.5 ! 10.6 ! 1.2 ! 11.8 ! 5.9 ! |} Life off the football field At his peak, Peter McKenna could lay claim to being the most popular footballer in the VFL – and, indeed, given the burgeoning impact of the mass media, almost certainly the most popular footballer ever in Australia up to that point. Not only was he a highly successful full forward playing for the nation's most popular sporting club, he possessed a Beatle-esque 'look' which, by the standards of the time, was an adman's dream. During this time, he recorded his first pop single Things to Remember, written by Melbourne singer/songwriter Colin Buckley. This was followed by another single Smile, written by Johnny Young. In 1969, he was a teacher at Fairfield State Primary. In the late 1970s and early 1980s he taught at Marcellin College Junior boys school in Camberwell. McKenna appeared regularly on television at this time, being Daryl Somers' co-host of Hey Hey It's Saturday for the show's first eight weeks in late 1971, and continuing to appear after Ossie Ostrich had replaced him as