11 Facts About Les Foote

Leslie Roy Foote was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League.

Les Foote was able to kick equally well with both feet, and his ability to play close to the ground meant that he was not only a brilliant ball player but was had an outstanding ability to control the ball in packs.

Les Foote was famous for his baulking and dodging skills and his courageous style of play.

Les Foote dominated the ruck, and North Melbourne were so dominant during the last quarter that the ball was at Essendon's end of the ground only once, and North scored 8.4 to Essendon's zero to win the match by 8 points: North 15.12 d Essendon 14.10.

Les Foote was the first man to captain North Melbourne into a VFL Grand Final in 1950, having played a career-best game against Geelong in the previous week's Preliminary Final, in which he almost single-handedly converted a seven-goal deficit into a 17-point win for North Melbourne.

Les Foote coached them for two years before returning to the VFL in 1954 as captain-coach St Kilda.

In 1954, having returned to the highest, toughest, and fastest level of Australian Rules football, and at the advanced age of 30, Foote won St Kilda's best and fairest in front of the 1958 Brownlow Medalist Neil Roberts, the 8-time Victorian representative Keith Drinan, and 4-time Victorian representative and 1958 All-Australian player Jim Ross.

Les Foote won three best and fairest awards with North Melbourne.

Les Foote won the St Kilda best and fairest award in 1954.

Les Foote was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996.

In 2005, Les Foote was named Shinboner of the early era.