Les Foote
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| Personal Info | |
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| Birth | August 20, 1924, |
| Recruited from | |
| Death | April 11, 2006, Victoria, Australia |
| Playing Career¹ | |
| Debut | 1946, North Melbourne vs. , at |
| Team(s) | North Melbourne (1941-1951)
135 games, 107 goals St Kilda (1954-1955) 33 games, 4 goals |
| Coaching Career¹ | |
| Team(s) | St Kilda (1954-55)
36 games - 5 wins, 30 losses, 1 draw |
| ¹ Statistics to end of 2005 season | |
| Career Highlights | |
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Leslie Roy Foote (August 20, 1924 – April 11, 2006) was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League.
[edit] Football career
Foote debuted with the North Melbourne Football Club in 1941 at just 16 years of age. He won three best and fairest awards with North Melbourne and was famous for his baulking and dodging skills.
Considered by many to be the most handsome footballer of his era, Foote had a propensity for ostentatiously displaying his extensive range of gracious football talents; and he was renowned for his habit of, regardless of where he had received the ball, running and bouncing the ball (often across the entire width of the Arden Street ground), so that he could run goalwards in full display along the boundary closest to the Ladies' Stand.
He took up a captain-coach position with the Berrigan (NSW) team for two years before returning to the VFL to captain-coach St Kilda in 1954. He won the St Kilda best and fairest award in 1954.
[edit] Death
[edit] External links
| Preceded by Alan Crawford |
North Melbourne Best & Fairest 1945 |
Succeeded by Don Condon |
| Preceded by Alan Crawford |
North Melbourne Best & Fairest 1949-50 |
Succeeded by Jock Spencer |
| Preceded by Keith Drinan |
St Kilda Best and Fairest 1954 |
Succeeded by Neil Roberts |
| Preceded by Keith Drinan |
St Kilda captain 1954-1955 |
Succeeded by Keith Drinan |
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