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Chris Lethbridge - Wikipedia

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Chris Lethbridge
Personal information
Full name	Christopher Francis Lethbridge
Date of birth	(1890-05-24)24 May 1890
Place of birth	Brighton East, Victoria
Date of death	25 March 1970(1970-03-25) (aged 79)
Place of death	Caulfield, Victoria
Original team(s)	Sydney YMCA
Height	183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	83 kg (183 lb)
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1913–1922	Fitzroy	148 (19)
Coaching career³
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
1925	Fitzroy	17 (12–5–0)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 1922. ³ Coaching statistics correct as of 1925.
Career highlights
Fitzroy premiership player 1913 Fitzroy premiership captain 1922 Fitzroy captain 1921–1922
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Christopher Francis Lethbridge (24 May 1890 – 25 March 1970)^[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the VFL.^[2]

Family

The son of Christopher Montague Lethbridge (1852–1906),^[3] and Alice Maud Lethbridge (died 1922), née Emmerson,^[4] Christopher Francis Lethbridge was born in Brighton East on 24 May 1890. The family moved to Wagga Wagga in New South Wales very early in his life.

He married Bertha Lillian White (1893–1974) on 18 March 1916.^[5]

Football

Lethbridge was originally from New South Wales and played in defence for Fitzroy.

Granted a clearance from Y.M.C.A. Sydney on 23 May 1913,^[6] he made his debut, against South Melbourne, on 7 June 1913;^[7] and was a member of Fitzroy's premiership side that year.

In 1921 he took over the captaincy from Percy Parratt and in 1922 he captained Fitzroy to another flag before retiring at the season's end, thus becoming one of the few players in league history to be a member of premiership sides in his first and last season.

Non-playing coach

Lethbridge returned to the Fitzroy in 1925 and — replacing Vic Belcher, who had gone to coach the City Football Club in Launceston^[8] — served as its non-playing coach for the 1925 season.^[9]

The announcement of his appointment caused genuine pleasure, for few players enjoy the popularity that Lethbridge does. It was in 1922 he led the Fitzroy team to the premiership, made his fearless play as a half-back made him famous wherever the Australian game was played. Lethbridge is a renowned footballer, and he has the reputation of being one of the toughest men the game has known. A fighter of great courage, it is a wonder his fearlessness has never cost him serious injury, but he generally emerged unscathed. (The Sporting Globe, 22 April 1925.)^[10]

Footnotes

References

Fitzroy's Vice-Captain, The Herald, (Saturday, 30 July 1921), p.5.
Popular Half-Back: Career of Chris Lethbridge, The Herald, (Saturday, 30 July 1921), p.5.
Donald, Chris (2002). Fitzroy: For The Love Of The Jumper. Pan Macmillan Australia. ISBN 978-1-877029-18-9.

External links

Chris Lethbridge's playing statistics from AFL Tables
Chris Lethbridge at AustralianFootball.com

v t e Fitzroy Football Club 1913 VFL premiers
Fitzroy 7.14 (56) defeated St Kilda 5.13 (43), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
1. Buist 2. Wells 5. Cooper 6. Heaney 7. Toohey 8. Freake 8. Martin 11. Heron 12. Lethbridge 14. Johnson 17. Lenne 18. Harrison 19. McLennan 20. Norris 21. Parratt 23. Shaw 24. Walker (c) 30. Holden
Coach: Parratt

v t e Fitzroy Football Club 1922 VFL premiers
Fitzroy 11.13 (79) defeated Collingwood 9.14 (68), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
2. Molan 3. Fergie 4. Jenkin 5. Elliott 6. Gale 7. Rattray 8. Taylor 9. Freake 10. Wigraft 12. Lethbridge (c) 16. Williams 17. Atkinson 18. Sherry 24. McCracken 27. Corrigan 28. Donnellan 29. Collins 30. Parratt
Coach: Belcher

Captains of the Fitzroy Football Club

1897: Cleary
1898–1900: Sloan
1901–1902: McSpeerin
1903–1905: Brosnan
1906–1907: Jenkins
1908–1910: Sharp
1911: McLennan
1912: Cooper
1913: Walker
1914–1915: Parratt
1916: Johnson
1917–1918: Holden
1919: Johnson
1920–1921: Parratt
1921–1922: Lethbridge
1923: Rattray
1924–1925: Atkinson
1926: Adams
1927: Wigraft
1928: Rattray
1929: Chapman
1930–1931: Niven
1932: Bunton
1932–1933: Sexton
1933: Moriarty
1934: Cashman
1934: Davies
1935: Cameron
1936–1937: Bunton
1938–1941: Curcio
1942: Hearn
1943–1947: Hughson
1948: Ruthven
1949–1950: Smith
1950–1954: Ruthven
1955–1957: Stephen
1958–1961: Gale
1962: Abrahams
1963–1964: Murray
1965–1966: Rogerson
1966: Hayes
1967–1972: Murray
1973–1977: Murphy
1978: Merrigan
1979–1980: Alexander
1981–1984: Wilson
1985–1987: Rendell
1988–1990: Roos
1991: Osborne
1992–1994: Roos
1995–1996: Boyd

Coaches of the Fitzroy Football Club

1911–1912: Moriarty
1913–1915: Parratt
1916–1919: Holden
1919: Melling
1920–1921: Parratt
1922–1924: Belcher
1925: Lethbridge
1926–1927: Belcher
1928: Rattray
1929: Ringrose
1929: Freake
1930–1931: Niven
1932–1933: Maher
1934: Wigraft
1934: Cashman
1935: Rowe
1936: Bunton
1937–1939: Rattray
1940–1942: Minogue
1943–1947: Hughson
1945: Hillard
1948: Cameron
1949–1951: N. Smith
1952–1954: Ruthven
1955–1957: Stephen
1956: Curcio
1958–1962: L. Smith
1961: Edwards
1963–1964: Murray
1963: Clark
1964: Williams
1965–1970: Stephen
1968: Slocum
1971–1974: Donaldson
1974: Campbell
1975–1977: Rose
1978: Campbell
1979–1980: Stephen
1981–1985: Walls
1986–1988: Parkin
1989–1990: Austin
1991–1994: Shaw
1995: Quinlan
1995: McConnell
1996: Nunan
1996: McConnell

Italics denote caretaker coach

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