1. John James Leonard was a player and coach of Australian rules football in the West Australian Football League and the Victorian Football League in the period 1922 to 1946.
12 Facts About Johnny Leonard
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Johnny Leonard was Subiaco's best and fairest player five times.
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Johnny Leonard played 158 senior club games and represented his State 25 times.
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Johnny Leonard won the Sandover Medal in 1926 and was awarded a retrospective medal for the 1929 season after finishing second on a countback.
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Johnny Leonard coached over only nine seasons but with a great deal of success, securing five WANFL premierships.
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Johnny Leonard coached South Melbourne for the 1932 season, taking it to its first finals campaign in almost a decade.
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Johnny Leonard is credited with laying the groundwork for the "foreign legion" team which won the 1933 VFL premiership, recruiting leading WANFL players such as his Subiaco teammates Brighton Diggins and Bill Faul.
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Johnny Leonard steered West Perth Football Club to successive premierships in 1934 and 1935.
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Johnny Leonard was asked to return to South Melbourne at the end of 1936, but business prevented him moving to Victoria.
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Seven years later, Johnny Leonard was asked at the age of fifty to re-take the coaching reins at South Melbourne, but his business in a football-making factory took up all of his time and he could not accept.
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Johnny Leonard was a highly respected Perth businessman following his football career.
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Johnny Leonard served as the Association President for the first two years and the local associations played for the John Leonard Perpetual Shield in the winter competition.