Leslie Francis Flintoff (5 October 1930 – 7 February 2019) was an
Australian rules football
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er who played with
Richmond
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* Richmond, North Yorkshire, a town in England
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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).
In 1954, Flintoff was captain-coach of Ganmain that lost the
South West Football League (New South Wales) The South West District Football League was a major Australian rules football competition which ran from 1910 until 1981 in the Riverina region of New South Wales.
History
The first recorded Australian Rules Football match in the Riverina area wa ...
to Ariah Park Mirrool.
He was the father of Olympic hurdler
Debbie Flintoff-King
Debra ("Debbie") Lee Flintoff-King, (OAM) (born 20 April 1960) is a retired Australian athlete, and winner of the women's 400 m hurdles event at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
Athletics career
Flintoff-King was born in Melbourne, the daughter of ...
.
In 1987 he was an unsuccessful candidate on the
National Party's
Victorian
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19th century
* Victorian era, British history during Queen Victoria's 19th-century reign
** Victorian architecture
** Victorian house
** Victorian decorative arts
** Victorian fashion
** Victorian literature ...
Senate
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ticket.
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1930 births
2019 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)
Richmond Football Club players