Lefroy Football Club were an Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

 club which competed in the Tasmanian Football League

Tasmanian Football League

Tasmanian State League is the highest ranked Australian rules football league in Tasmania, Australia.The league has a long and convoluted history which dates back to its founding on 12 June 1879 Tasmanian State League (TSL) (formerly known as the Tasmanian Football League (TFL), Tasmanian...

 (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.

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.

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

Cananore Football Club

Cananore Football Club was an Australian rules football club, founded in 1901.It competed in the Tasmanian Football League as a junior club from 1901 to 1907, and as a senior club between 1908 and 1941....

 were two of the original clubs to be replaced in the league after World War Two (by Sandy Bay

Sandy Bay Football Club

The Sandy Bay Football Club was an Australian rules football club based in Sandy Bay, Tasmania, Australia that participated in the Tasmanian Football League from 1945 to 1997.-Club History:...

 and Hobart

Hobart Football Club

Hobart Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in Hobart, Tasmania. They play their home fixtures at the TCA Ground on the Queens Domain, in Hobart and from 2009, the club has been a member of the Tasmanian State League.- Club history :...

 respectively) when the TANFL switched to a district-based competition.

Notable footballers to have played with Lefroy include Jim Atkinson

Jim Atkinson

James "Jim" Archibald Atkinson was an Australian rules footballer and first class cricketer.Atkinson played his football with Fitzroy in the VFL. He was a defender and in 1922 was a member of Fitzroy's premiership winning side as well as winning their Club Champion award. Atkinson was club captain...

, Harvey Kelly

Harvey Kelly

Harvey "Duff" Kelly was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne and Carlton in the Victorian Football League ....

 and Eric Zschech

Eric Zschech

Eric Leslie Zschech was an Australian rules footballer who played in the Victorian Football League between 1930 and 1935 for the Richmond Football Club...

.

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

Tasmanian State Premiership

The Tasmanian State Premiership was an Australian rules football tournament which was competed originally between the reigning TFL/TANFL and NTFA premiers, with the NWFU joining in from 1954....

 winners.

Premierships

TFA/TFL/TANFL Premierships (9)

• 1898, 1899, 1901, 1907, 1912, 1915, 1924, 1930, 1937

TFA/TFL/TANFL Runners-Up (12)

• 1900, 1902, 1908, 1909, 1911, 1913, 1920, 1927, 1929, 1934, 1936, 1938,

Tasmanian State Premierships (2)

• 1912, 1924

Club Facts

Most Games:

• 212 by Gavin Luttrell

W.R. Gill Memorial Trophy Winner:

• E.R.Smith 1925

George Watt Medallists:

• Eric Zschech 1936, 1937 & 1939

TFL Top Goalkickers:

• 1898 ― W.Abel (11)
• 1899 ― W.Facy (16)
• 1901 ― R.Hawson (18)
• 1912 ― A.Jones (17)
• 1915 ― A.Ringrose (18)
• 1921 ― R.Manson (42)
• 1922 ― R.Manson (41)
• 1934 ― T.Heathorn (101)

Highest Score:

• 34.18 (222) vs. Cananore in 1934

Record Crowd:

• 10,020 ― Lefroy v North Hobart ― 1929 TANFL Grand Final at North Hobart Oval
  North Hobart Oval
  North Hobart Oval is a sports venue in North Hobart, Tasmania, used for Australian rules football.-History:North Hobart Oval started its existence as Hobart Town's brickfields in 1844 before becoming a convict women's housing site, an immigration depot and an invalid persons' depot before closing...