Les Stainsby | |
Fullname: | Leslie Arthur Stainsby |
Birth Date: | 7 June 1898 |
Birth Place: | Mortlake, Victoria |
Death Place: | Prahran, Victoria |
Originalteam: | Coolamon |
Height: | 170 cm |
Weight: | 73 kg |
Statsend: | 1927 |
Years1: | 1925–1926 |
Club1: | Collingwood |
Games Goals1: | 23 (35) |
Years2: | 1927 |
Club2: | Richmond |
Games Goals2: | 2 (2) |
Games Goalstotal: | 25 (37) |
Leslie Arthur Stainsby (7 June 1898 – 29 April 1942)[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood and Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Stainsby spent two seasons at Collingwood, after arriving at the club from New South Wales club Coolamon.[2] In the first he kicked 29 goals, two of them in the 1925 VFL Grand Final, to finish second in Collingwood's goal-kicking, behind Gordon Coventry.[3] He played for Richmond in the 1927 VFL season.[3]