Leslie Watt (footballer)

Les Watt
Watt at the Eltham Gift in 1936
Personal information
Full name	Leslie Alfred Watt
Date of birth	9 December 1912
Place of birth	Rochester, Victoria
Date of death	20 January 1949 (aged 36)
Place of death	Echuca, Victoria
Original team(s)	Rochester
Height/Weight	180 cm / 84 kg
Playing career^1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1932 1933–37	Collingwood Fitzroy	02 0(0) 35 (19) 37 (19)
^1 Playing statistics correct to end of 1937 season.

Leslie Alfred Watt (9 December 1912 – 20 January 1949^[1]) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood and Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).^[2]

A talented sprinter, he came fourth in the 1936 Stawell Gift,^[3] after being named as one of the favourites in the lead up to the race, winning the Eltham Gift the previous week.^[4]

Notes

1. "Family Notices.". The Argus (Melbourne: National Library of Australia). 22 January 1949. p. 15.
2. Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 930. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
3. "Stawell Gift". The Mercury (Hobart, Tas.: National Library of Australia). 14 April 1936. p. 7. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
4. "Sports Meetings Watt Brilliant". The Argus (Melbourne: National Library of Australia). 6 April 1936. p. 12. Retrieved 9 November 2014.

External links

• Leslie Watt's statistics from AFL Tables
• Les Watt's profile at Collingwood Forever