Les Laver

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Les Laver
Personal information
Date of birth	9 December 1900
Original team	Hampton
Debut	Round 6, 1926, Geelong v. Richmond, at Punt Road Oval
Height/Weight	173 cm / 76 kg
Playing career¹
Geelong (1926) (1928) (1931-32) 8 games, 0 goals
¹ Playing statistics correct 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.

v t e 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

Persondata
Name	Laver, Les
Alternative names
Short description	Australian rules footballer and coach
Date of birth	9 December 1900
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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