Rex Arthur Lethborg (born about 1936) is a former Australian rules footballer who played in Tasmania during the 1950s and 1960s and was selected at representative level.
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 behind posts.
Lethborg played for Scottsdale in the Northern Tasmanian Football Association (NTFA) as a forward pocket/rover. He was runner-up in the club Best & Fairest in 1956 [1] , and club leading goalkicker a number of times between 1955 and 1965. His best individual effort in a match was nine goals versus East Launceston in 1961 (Round 18).
The Scottsdale Football Club is an Australian rules football club which competed in the old Northern Tasmanian Football Association (NTFA) between 1948 and 1986. Scottsdale joined the Northern Tasmanian Football League in 1987. For financial reasons, Scottsdale could no longer field a team in the NTFL and in 2000 switched to the new NTFA, an amateur competition which had been formed four years earlier. Scottsdale, nicknamed The Magpies, currently play in a competition of the Northern Tasmanian Football Association.
He was a member of Scottsdale's premiership teams in 1964 and 1965, kicking five goals himself in the latter game.
Lethborg represented Tasmania at the 1961 Brisbane Carnival. [2]
The 1961 Brisbane Carnival was the 15th edition of the Australian National Football Carnival, an Australian rules football interstate competition. It was the last carnival to be held in Queensland.
