Leon Beer
Personal information
Full name Leonta Horace Beer
Nickname(s) Onty
Date of birth (1903-02-11)11 February 1903
Place of birth Townsville, Queensland
Date of death 12 February 1966(1966-02-12) (aged 63)
Place of death Sunshine North, Victoria
Original team(s) Yarraville (MJFA)
Height 178 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 76 kg (168 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1920 Yarraville (MJFA)
1921–1923 South Melbourne (VFL) 15 (2)
1924–1928 Williamstown (VFA) 74 (36)
1929 Yarraville (VFA) 12 (5)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1929.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Leonta Horace "Onty" Beer (11 February 1903 – 12 February 1966) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Family

The son of Arthur Wills Beer (1856–1925),[2] and Rose Edith Beer (1863–1929), née Newman, Leonta Horace Beer was born at Townsville, Queensland on 11 February 1903 known as "Onty" (sometimes "Ontie"), he was named "Leonta" after the devastating 1903 Townsville cyclone, identified as such by the Queensland State Government meteorologist C.L. Wragge.[3][4]

He married Isabella Ivy Brown (1900–1949) in 1922.[5]

Football

Yarraville (MJFA)

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South Melbourne (VFL)

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Williamstown (VFA)

Having tried out with Footscray in the preseason,[8] he played his first game for Williamstown, against Hawthorn on 7 June 1924.[9][10]

Yarraville (VFA)

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Notes

References

  • Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2014), The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.), Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5
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