Lefroy Football Club

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Lefroy
Names
Full nameLefroy Football Club
Nickname(s)Blues
1898 (1st) season
Club details
Founded28 April 1898
Dissolved1941;81 years ago (1941)
Colours  
Competition Tasmanian Football League
Ground(s) TCA Ground
North Hobart Oval
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Lefroy Football Club were an Australian rules football club which competed in the Tasmanian Football League (TFL/TANFL). They were known as The Blues and played their home games at North Hobart Oval as well as the Tasmanian Cricket Association Ground. Lefroy players wore dark and light blue as their club colours.

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The club was formed at a meeting called by Mr Oscar H. Jones in the Rialto Room, Liverpool Street, Hobart on 28 April 1898 for the purpose of reviving club football in Hobart. [1]

After starting out in the STFA, the club joined the TFL in 1906 when the league was renamed and played in the league until 1941.

Lefroy and Cananore were two of the original clubs to be replaced in the league after World War Two (by Sandy Bay and Hobart respectively) when the TANFL switched to a district-based competition.

Notable footballers to have played with Lefroy include Jim Atkinson, Harvey Kelly and Eric Zschech.

Lefroy were league premiers on nine occasions and dual Tasmanian State Premiership winners.

Premierships

Club Facts

A Lefroy F.C. team in 1927, when they finished runners-up. Lefroy fc 1927.jpg
A Lefroy F.C. team in 1927, when they finished runners-up.

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W.R. Gill Memorial Trophy Winner:

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References

  1. "Peep at Sport" - Hobart Mercury: Tuesday, 9 August 1973 (Page 26)