Francis Leonard Davies (17 May 1910 – 25 October 1989) was an
Australian rules football
Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...
er who played with
South Melbourne in the
Victorian Football League
The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...
(VFL).
Davies, a South Ballarat recruit, played at South Melbourne for three seasons.
He kicked two goals, from a
forward pocket, in South Melbourne's
1935 VFL Grand Final
The 1935 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Collingwood Football Club and South Melbourne Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 5 October 1935. It was the 37th annual Grand ...
loss to
Collingwood.
[AFL Tables: Frank Davies]
/ref> In 1934 and 1936, he missed selection in the South Melbourne grand final team, despite playing in their preliminary final
The McIntyre System, or systems as there have been five of them, is a playoff system that gives an advantage to teams or competitors qualifying higher. The systems were developed by Ken McIntyre, an Australian lawyer, historian and English lect ...
win each year.[
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1910 births
1989 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Sydney Swans players
South Ballarat Football Club players
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