Les Rowell
St Kilda
AFL career
21 games9 goals
- Debut
- R1 1942 v FIT9 May 1942
- Most recent
- R2 1945 v MEL28 Apr 1945
Stats
Bio
Originally hailing from VFA club Prahran, Les Rowell crossed to St Kilda when the Association suspended competition during the Second World War. A diminutive and lightly built rover standing just 173cm, he was granted an opportunity at VFL level as clubs scrambled to fill their lists amid wartime player shortages. Rowell featured sporadically across four seasons for the Saints, playing during a bleak era where the club collected the wooden spoon in every year of his tenure. He split his home matches between Toorak Park and the Junction Oval before his VFL career concluded at the end of 1945, marking him as a classic example of the wartime footballer who stepped up to keep the league running during global conflict.
Profile
- Born
- 22 Oct 1921
- Died
- 13 Aug 2008 (aged 86y 296d)
- Height
- 173 cm
- Weight
- 68 kg
Teams
Bio
1 revisionOriginally hailing from VFA club Prahran, Les Rowell crossed to St Kilda when the Association suspended competition during the Second World War. A diminutive and lightly built rover standing just 173cm, he was granted an opportunity at VFL level as clubs scrambled to fill their lists amid wartime player shortages. Rowell featured sporadically across four seasons for the Saints, playing during a bleak era where the club collected the wooden spoon in every year of his tenure. He split his home matches between Toorak Park and the Junction Oval before his VFL career concluded at the end of 1945, marking him as a classic example of the wartime footballer who stepped up to keep the league running during global conflict.