Leonard George Ablett (10 May 1916 – 19 December 2006) was an

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

er who played with

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in the VFL during the early 1940s. Ablett joined Richmond from the Victorian town of

Myrtleford Myrtleford is a town in northeast Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, 282 km (175 miles) northeast of Melbourne and 47 km (29 miles) southeast of Wangaratta. Myrtleford is part of the Alpine Shire local government area and in 20 ...

. He came off the bench as a reserve in Richmond's 1943 premiership side, his last game in the VFL. Ablett returned to

and was the club's best-and-fairest player in its inaugural

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season in 1950. The pavilion at Myrtleford's home ground of McNamara Reserve was named after him in 1974. He was the club's first life member and served 20 years as president. Ablett also served as a councillor and president with the Shire of Myrtleford. Ablett was the uncle of mercurial

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footballer

Gary Ablett Sr. Gary Robert Ablett Sr. (born 1 October 1961) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who represented and in the Australian Football League (AFL). Nicknamed "God", Ablett is widely regarded as one of Australian football's greatest ...

and helped recruit him to Myrtleford for one season in 1983.Favourite sons of the Ovens and Murray
/ref> He was the first member of the famous Ablett family to win a premiership.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ablett, Len 1916 births 2006 deaths Len Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Richmond Football Club players Richmond Football Club premiership players Myrtleford Football Club players People from Myrtleford VFL/AFL premiership players 20th-century Australian sportsmen