Len Halley

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Len Halley
Personal information
Full name Harold Leonard Halley
Date of birth (1951-03-07) 7 March 1951 (age 68)
Original team(s) Healesville
Height 191 cm (6 ft 3 in)
Weight 92 kg (203 lb)
Position(s) Ruckman
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
1970–1973 Essendon 35 (11)
1975–1979 West Perth 58 (28)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1973.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Harold Leonard "Len" Halley (born 7 March 1951) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Australian rules football Contact sport invented in Melbourne

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, or simply called Aussie rules, football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of eighteen players on an oval-shaped field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by kicking the oval-shaped ball between goal posts or between goal and behind posts.

Essendon Football Club Australian rules football club

The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed the Bombers, is a professional Australian rules football club that plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition. Thought to have formed in 1872, the club played its first recorded game on 7 June 1873 against a Carlton Second 20, winning 1 goal to nil. The club played a senior club in the Victorian Football Association in 1878, one year after the VFA formed. It is historically associated with Essendon, a suburb in the north-west of Melbourne, Victoria. Since 2013, the club has been headquartered at The Hangar, Melbourne Airport, and plays its home games at either Docklands Stadium or the Melbourne Cricket Ground; throughout most of its history the club's home ground and headquarters was Windy Hill, Essendon, where it played from 1922 until 1991. While it stopped playing games at the ground thereafter, Windy Hill remained its training and administration base until the end of 2013. Dyson Heppell is the current team captain.

Australian Football League Australian rules football competition

The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent and only fully professional men's competition of Australian rules football. Through the AFL Commission, the AFL also serves as the sport's governing body, and is responsible for controlling the laws of the game. Originally known as the Victorian Football League (VFL), it was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition from the Victorian Football Association (VFA), with its inaugural season commencing the following year. The VFL, with the aim of becoming a national competition, began expanding beyond Victoria to other Australian states in the 1980s, and in 1990 changed its name to the AFL.

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Career

Essendon

Recruited from Healesville in 1966, Halley began in the Essendon under-19s. [1] In 1968 he won the under-19s best and fairest award and was also a member of Essendon's reserves premiership team that year. [1] A ruckman, he started his VFL career two years later, with nine appearances in the second half of the 1970 season. [2] [3] He was called up for national service in 1971 and only played five league games. [3] [4] In 1972 he won Essendon's "best clubman" award in a season in which he played 17 games, including an elimination final. [1] [3] He was mostly in the reserves in 1973 and won the team's best and fairest award. [1]

In Australian sport, the best and fairest, or fairest and best in some competitions e.g. West Australian Football League, recognises the player(s) adjudged to have had the best performance in a game or over a season for a given sporting club or competition. The awards are sometimes dependent on not receiving a suspension for misconduct or breaching the rules during that season.

The 1970 Victorian Football League season was the 74th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.

Post VFL career

Halley played in Tasmania for East Devonport in 1974. [1] The following year he joined West Perth and was a member of the team which defeated South Fremantle by a record 104-points to win the 1975 WANFL Grand Final. [1] He remained with West Perth in 1976, then spent the 1977 VFA season with Brunswick. [1] [5] In 1978 and 1979 he was back at West Perth. [1] In 1980 he began his coaching career with a two-year stint as captain-coach of Tatura in the Goulburn Valley Football League. [1] After two seasons with Benalla, Halley returned to his original club Healesville in 1984. [1] He captain-coached Diamond Valley Football League club Montmorency in 1985, then had a season with Warrandyte. [1]

East Devonport Football Club

The East Devonport Football Club is an Australian rules football club based on Devonport, Tasmania. The club has competed in the North West Football League since 1987.

West Perth Football Club Australian rules football club based in Joondalup, Western Australia

The West Perth Football Club, nicknamed the Falcons, is an Australian rules football club located in Joondalup, Western Australia. West Perth competes in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and is the oldest existing Australian rules football club in Western Australia. Originally located at Leederville Oval, the team was relocated in 1994 to Arena Joondalup, a sports complex in the northern suburbs of Perth. The team's club song is "It's a Grand Old Flag" and its traditional rivals are East Perth.

The 1977 Victorian Football Association season was the 96th season of the top division of the Australian rules football competition, and the 17th season of second division competition. The Division 1 premiership was won by the Port Melbourne Football Club, after it defeated Sandringham in the Grand Final on 25 September by 100 points; it was Port Melbourne's 12th Division 1 premiership, its second in a row, and the third of six premierships won by the club in nine seasons between 1974 and 1982. The Division 2 premiership was won by Mordialloc; it was the first and only Association premiership in either division ever won by the club.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "Past Player Profiles – H". essendonfc.com.au. Archived from the original on 6 July 2015. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  2. ↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia Of AFL Footballers. BAS Publishing. ISBN   9781920910785.
  3. 1 2 3 "AFL Tables – Len Halley – Games Played". AFL Tables. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  4. ↑ Beames, Percy (7 July 1971). "Max Richardson back this week". The Age . p. 20. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  5. ↑ Fiddian, Marc (30 May 1977). "Dandy makes a final move". The Age . p. 35. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
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