Arthur Leach

Arthur Leach
Personal information
Date of birth	2 March 1876
Date of death	1 October 1948(1948-10-01) (aged 72)
Original team(s)	Boroondara
Debut	Round 9, 1897, Essendon vs. Collingwood, at Victoria Park
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1897	Essendon	004 0(2)
1898–1908	Collingwood	173 (92)
Total		177 (94)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 1908.
Career highlights
2× VFL premiership player: 1902, 1903 Collingwood captain: 1906–1908
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Arthur T. Leach (2 March 1876 – 1 October 1948) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon and Collingwood during the early years of the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Leach was used either on the ball or up forward and made his debut for Essendon in the inaugural league season of 1897. He managed just four games that year and in 1898 crossed to Collingwood where he would spend the next 11 seasons. Leach played in a total of four Grand Finals, for premierships in 1902 and 1903. He captained Collingwood for part of the 1906 season and for all of 1907.

His younger brothers Fred and Ted played beside Arthur in Collingwood's 1902 premiership campaign.

References

Arthur Leach's statistics from AFL Tables
Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
Essendon Football Club profile

Collingwood Football Club 1902/03 VFL premiers
1902: Collingwood 9.6 (60) defeated Essendon 3.9 (27), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground 1903: Collingwood 4.7 (31) defeated Fitzroy 3.11 (29), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
Angus Condon Dummett Fell Incoll Leach G. Lockwood T. Lockwood McCormack Pannam Pears Proudfoot Rowell Rush Tulloch (c)

Captains of the Collingwood Football Club

VFL/AFL

1897: Strickland
1898–1899: Proudfoot
1900: Condon
1901: Proudfoot
1902–1904: Tulloch
1905: C. Pannam
1906: Dummett
1906–1908: Leach
1908: Drohan
1908–1909: Nash
1910–1911: Angus
1912–1913: McHale
1914–1916: Minogue
1917–1918: Wilson
1919: McCarthy
1920–1921: Lee
1922: Drummond
1923: Curtis
1924–1926: Tyson
1927–1934: Coventry
1935–1939: Collier
1940–1941: Regan
1942: Kyne
1943: Regan
1944: Fricker
1945: A. Pannam
1946–1949: Kyne
1950–1951: Hocking
1952–1955: Richards
1955–1956: Mann
1957: Twomey
1958–1959: Tuck
1960–1963: Weideman
1964–1965: Gabelich
1965: Henderson
1966–1969: Tuddenham
1970–1971: Waters
1971–1975: W. Richardson
1976: Tuddenham
1977: M. Richardson
1978: Thompson
1979–1980: R. Shaw
1981–1982: Moore
1983–1986: Williams
1987–1993: T. Shaw
1994–1998: Brown
1999–2007: Buckley
2008: Burns
2009–2013: Maxwell
2014–: Pendlebury

AFL Women's

2017–: Chiocci

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