Les McClements

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Les McClements
Personal information
Full name	Les McClements
Position(s)	Ruckman
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1941–50 1951–	Claremont Clarence	108 ?
¹ Playing statistics correct to end of 1950 season.

Les McClements was an Australian rules footballer who played for Claremont in the West Australian National Football League (WANFL) and in Tasmania with Clarence.

Although not the tallest going around, McClements played as a ruckman and was Claremont's 'Best and fairest' winner every year from 1946 to 1950. He was unlucky not to play in a premiership as his career began the year after Claremont's strongest era where they won three successive flags. McClements represented Western Australia at the 1947 Hobart Carnival, starring in their upset win over the VFL and sharing the Tassie Medal with Bob Furler of Canberra.

In Tasmania he was a good performer for Clarence, where he won two 'Best and fairest' awards and earned selection in the Tasmanian squad for the 1953 Adelaide Carnival. Three years earlier he had represented Western Australia at the Brisbane Carnival. When not playing football he worked as a truck driver for a hardware firm. He served with the 9th Division of the Australian Army during World War II, and was a member of an army football side that defeated an RAAF side in Adelaide in 1945.^[1]

His niece Lyn McClements is a gold-medal-winning Olympic swimmer.

References

↑ FOOTBALLERS ON MONDAY – The Western Mail. Published 1 August 1946. Retrieved from Trove, 15 January 2012.

Full Points Footy: Les McClements

v t e Tassie Medal winners

1937: Cronin 1947: Furler / McClements 1950: Cashion 1953: McIntosh 1956: Farmer 1958: Aylett / Whitten 1961: Dixon 1966: Cable 1969: Eakins / Molloy 1972: McAullay 1975: not awarded 1979: Peake 1980: Cornes 1983: Michael 1984: Hardie 1985: Weightman 1986: Hardie 1987: Naley 1988: Salmon

The Tassie Medal was awarded from 1937–88 to the best player at the Australian National Football Carnival.

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Name	McClements, Les
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