Trevor Leo
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| Full name | Trevor Leo | |||||||
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| Recruited from | Cooee | |||||||
| Position | Rover | |||||||
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| 1953 1954-61 1962 1963-68 |
Cooee Football Club Hobart Launceston Football Club New Norfolk |
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| ¹ Club statistics to end of 1968 season | ||||||||
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Trevor Leo was an Australian rules footballer from Tasmania. He played for Hobart and New Norfolk in the TFL during the 1950s and 1960s.
Rover Trevor Leo came to Hobart from Cooee where he was a Best and fairest winner. He made his Hobart debut in 1954 and was a member of their premiership side that year as well as in 1959 and 1960. His greatest individual achievement as a player was winning the William Leitch Medal in 1957 and he also won two Best and fairests while at Hobart.
Leo joined New Norfolk in 1963 and was immediately appointed their captain-coach. In 1968 he steered the club to their inaugural TANFL/TFL premiership and also the Tasmanian State Premiership. He retired as a player following his 1968 triumphs but stayed on as coach for one more year. In 1974 he returned to Hobart where he was coach for the season.
On 18 occasions during his career he represented Tasmania at interstate football, including the 1956, 1958 and 1961 carnivals. He was Tasmania's coach as the 1966 Hobart and 1969 Adelaide Carnivals.
