Les Reed (footballer)

Leslie George Reed (16 August 1932 – 25 May 2021) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Geelong in the VFL during the early 1950s.

He married Joan "Mickey" Heathcote (1931-2015) on 9 October 1954.

Reed was a utility player and was recruited from Euroa.

[1][2] He was the 19th man for the Geelong's 1951 premiership side that defeated the Essendon team that played without the suspended John Coleman, 11.15 (81) to 10.10 (70) -- he replaced the injured Loy Stewart during the match[3] -- and he also played on the wing when Geelong lost to Collingwood, 8.17 (65) to 11.11 (77) in the 1953 Grand Final.

This Australian rules football biography of a person born in the 1930s is a stub.