Les Laver

Les Laver
Personal information
Birth	9 December 1900
Recruited from	Hampton
Height and weight	173 cm / 76 kg
Playing career¹
Debut	Round 6, 1926, Geelong v. Richmond, at Punt Road Oval
Team(s)	Geelong (1926) (1928) (1931-32) 8 games, 0 goals
¹ Statistics to end of 1932 season

Les Laver (born 9 December 1900, date of death unknown) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the VFL during the late 1920s and early 1930s.

After five games in his debut season, Laver managed just three more appearances for Geelong, each in different seasons. In the 1940 VFL season he stepped in as caretaker coach of Geelong when Reg Hickey was unavailable and steered them to a win over Footscray and loss to Essendon. In his playing career he had never experienced a loss, playing in winning sides in all but one of his games, the other was drawn. Hickey and Laver had made their VFL debuts in the same match in 1926.

References

Les Laver's statistics from AFL Tables
Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.

Coaches of the Geelong Football Club

1910–1911: Hickinbotham • 1912–1913: Eason • 1914: Orchard • 1923: Taylor • 1924: Hagger • 1925–1927: Rankin • 1928: Fitzmaurice • 1929–1930: Coghlan • 1931: Clymo • 1932: Hickey • 1933–1934: Coghlan • 1935: Parratt • 1936: Dibbs • 1936–1940: Hickey • 1940: Everett • 1940: Laver • 1941: Metherell • 1944: Arklay • 1945–1959: Hickey • 1956; 1960–1965: Davis • 1963: Trezise • 1966–1970: Pianto • 1971–1972: McMaster • 1973–1975: Farmer • 1976–1979: Olsson • 1980–1982: Goggin • 1983–1985: Hafey • 1986–1988: Devine • 1989–1994: Blight • 1995–1999: Ayres • 2000–2010: Thompson • 2011–: Scott

Italics denote caretaker coach

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Name	Laver, Les
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Date of birth	9 December 1900
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