Les Hughes

Australian rules footballer

Australian rules footballer
Les Hughes
Hughes in 1910
Personal information
Full name Leslie Horace Hughes
Nickname(s) Flapper, Lofty
Date of birth 18 April 1884
Place of birth Northcote, Victoria
Date of death 27 September 1962(1962-09-27) (aged 78)
Place of death Parkville, Victoria
Original team(s) Collingwood Trades
Height 188 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight 93 kg (205 lb)
Position(s) Ruck/Forward
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1908–1922 Collingwood 225 (175)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1922.
Career highlights

VFL/AFL

  • Australian Football League Life Member

Collingwood

  • 3x VFL premiership player: 1910, 1917, 1919
  • 2× Gordon Coventry Trophy - Leading Goal Kicker: 1912, 1913
  • Collingwood Football Club Most Consistent Player: 1912
  • Collingwood Football Club Life Member: 1919
  • Collingwood Football Club Hall of Fame: 2009

Representative

  • Victorian (VFL) Captain: 1919
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Leslie Horace Hughes (18 April 1884 – 27 September 1962)[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

References

  1. ^ "Les Hughes". Collingwood Forever. Retrieved 3 September 2014.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Les Hughes.
  • Les Hughes's playing statistics from AFL Tables
  • "L. H. HUGHES". The Australasian. 17 May 1919. p. 23.
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Collingwood Football Club 1910 VFL premiers
Collingwood 9.7 (61) defeated Carlton 6.11 (47), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
  • Angus (c)
  • Baxter
  • Daykin
  • Gibb
  • Gilchrist
  • Hughes
  • Lee
  • McHale
  • McIvor
  • Norris
  • Oliver
  • Rowell
  • Ryan
  • Sadler
  • Scaddan
  • Shorten
  • Vernon
  • Wilson
Coach: Angus
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Collingwood Football Club 1917/19 VFL premiers
1917: Collingwood 9.20 (74) defeated Fitzroy 5.9 (39), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
1919: Collingwood 11.12 (78) defeated Richmond 7.11 (53), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
  • 3/2. Curtis
  • 8/5. Drummond
  • 10/6. Hughes
  • 13. Lee
  • 14/11. Laxton
  • 18/14. McCarthy (c 1919)
  • 19/15. Pannam
  • 20/16. Reynolds
  • 23/18. Saunders
  • 26/10. Lumsden
  • 27/12. Mutch
Coach: McHale
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Collingwood Football Club · leading goalkickers
VFA
  • 1892: Anderson/Smith
  • 1893: Anderson
  • 1894: Smith
  • 1895: Smith
  • 1896: Gillard
VFL/AFL
AFL Women's


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