Leslie Millis (18 June 1881 – 7 April 1950) 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 for the

Fitzroy Football Club The Fitzroy Football Club is an Australian rules football club currently competing in the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA). Formed in 1883 to represent the inner-Melbourne municipality of Fitzroy, the club was a member of the Vi ...

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). He usually played on the wing or as a rover. Millis won back-to-back premierships with the club in 1904 and 1905, the latter as Fitzroy's

best and fairest In Australian sport, the best and fairest award recognises the player(s) adjudged to have had the best performance in a game or over a season for a given sporting club or competition. The awards are sometimes dependent on not receiving a suspensi ...

. Millis won the award again the following season.

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* 1881 births 1950 deaths Australian rules footballers from Melbourne Fitzroy Football Club players Fitzroy Football Club premiership players Mitchell Medal winners VFL/AFL premiership players People from Fitzroy, Victoria {{AFL-bio-1881-stub