Len Lapthorne

Australian rules footballer

Len Lapthorne
Personal information
Full name	Lenton Lapthorne
Date of birth	(1919-01-29)29 January 1919
Date of death	30 May 1997(1997-05-30) (aged 78)
Position(s)	Rover
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1937–1941, 1945–1952	South Adelaide	205 (365)
1942–1944	Sturt/South	15 (?)
Total		220 (365)
Representative team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
1947	South Australia	2 (?)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 1952.
Career highlights
4 x South Adelaide leading goalkicker (1946, 1948, 1950, 1951) South Adelaide captain 1949–1950 South Adelaide Football Club 'Greatest Team' (Interchange)

Lenton "Len" Lapthorne (29 January 1919 – 30 May 1997) was a former Australian rules footballer who played for South Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) between 1937 and 1952.^[1]^[2] He was appointed Captain of South Adelaide for two seasons from 1949 to 1950.^[3]

References

^ "Lapthorne To Retire". The Advertiser. 1 September 1951. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
^ "Round the Pickets". The Advertiser. 25 August 1952. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
^ "Lapthorne To Lead South". The Advertiser. 21 April 1949. Retrieved 13 February 2019.

External links

Len Lapthorne's profile at AustralianFootball.com

South Australian team – 1947 Interstate Carnival

South Australia 20.18 (138) d Western Australia 15.12 (102)
Victoria 18.19 (127) defeated South Australia 7.9 (51)

Captain: Quinn
Vice-Captain: Hank
Betson
Burkett
Cox
Crabb
Gallagher
Giles
Ingham
Kretschmer
Langley
Lapthorne
Lehmann
McFarlane
McLean
O'Leary
Olds
Pyatt
Schober
Schumann
B. Smith
C. Smith
Tilley
Way
Williams

v t e Captains of the South Adelaide Football Club
1876–1878: G. Kennedy 1879: S.A. Wallace 1880–1884: A. Mehrtens 1885–1887: J. Hall 1888–1898: J. Reedman 1899: A.E. Tomlin 1900: S. Reedman 1901: H. Kruss 1902–1904: S. Reedman 1905: J. Hansen 1906: A. Morton 1907: J.B. Windsor 1908: F. O'Brien 1909: D. McDougall 1910–1915: J.J. Tredrea 1919–1922: S.N. McKee 1923–1924: A. Caust 1925: D. Moriarty 1926–1927: W. Oliver 1928: H. Lingwood Smith 1929: W. Oliver 1930–1931: S.R. Jaffer 1932: B. McGregor 1933: S.R. Jaffer 1934: C.R. Rose 1935–1936: F. Tully 1937: W.J. Mackay 1938–1944: J.P. Dawes 1945: C.E. Haines 1946: J. Templeton 1947: L.W. Cahill 1948: D.A. Pryor 1949–1950: L.E. Lapthorne 1951–1953: J.G. Deane 1954: A.D. Hickinbotham 1955–1956: R.M. Hewitt 1957: J.G. Deane 1958–1959: R.A.N. Reimann 1960: D.I. Panizza 1961–1962: G. Christie 1963: I. Day / P.M. Darley 1964–1966: N. Kerley 1967–1969: P.M. Darley 1970: L. Backman 1971: P.M. Darley 1972–1973: D. Darcy 1974–1976: R. Keddie 1977: G. Robbins 1978–1981: G. Baynes 1982–1984: S. Palmer 1985–1987: J. Schneebichler 1988–1989: S. Butler 1990–1992: M. Bennett 1993: D. Kappler 1994–1995: D. Trevena 1996–1997: D. Stoeckel 1998–2000: A. Osborn 2000–2001: K. Koster 2003–2007: C. Sampson 2008–2009: J. Torney 2010: B. Warren 2011–2012: N. Murphy 2013: J. Thewlis 2014: J. Thewlis / N. Murphy 2015–2017: B. Crabb 2018: J. Cross / K. Brooksby 2019: J. Cross / M. Rose

Captains of the South Adelaide Football Club