Les Laver

Les Laver
Personal information
Date of birth	9 December 1900
Date of death	9 January 1982(1982-01-09) (aged 81)
Original team(s)	Hampton
Debut	Round 6, 1926, Geelong vs. Richmond, at Punt Road Oval
Height / weight	173 cm / 76 kg
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1926, 1928, 1931–32	Geelong	8 (0)
Coaching career
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
1940	Geelong	2 (1–1–0)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 1932.

Les Laver (9 December 1900 – 9 January 1982)^[1] 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 - Player Bio". Australian Football. Retrieved 28 December 2014.

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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