[4] His two brothers, Arthur Thomas Leach (1876–1948) and Edward Hale "Ted" Leach (1883-1965) also played for Collingwood.

[5] Leach was a centreman in the losing Grand Final side of 1901, but played at centre half-back in the 1902 premiership team.

At the end of the 1899 season, in the process of naming his own "champion player", the football correspondent for The Argus, Reginald Wilmot ("Old Boy"), selected a team of the best players of the 1899 VFL competition: From those he considered to be the three best players — that is, Condon, Hickey, and Pleass — Wilmot selected Pat Hickey as his "champion player" of the season.

[6] He died of typhoid fever at his father's residence in Surrey Hills on 14 April 1908.

This Australian rules football biography of a person born in the 1870s is a stub.