Leslie Millis (18 June 1881 – 7 April 1950) 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 for the

Fitzroy Football Club The Fitzroy Football Club is an Australian rules football club currently competing in the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA). Formed in 1883 to represent the inner-Melbourne municipality of City of Fitzroy, Fitzroy, the club is base ...

in the

Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition. It includes teams from clubs based in east ...

(VFL). He usually played on the wing or as a rover. Millis won back-to-back premierships with the club in 1904 and 1905, the latter as Fitzroy's

best and fairest In Australian sport, the best and fairest award recognises the player(s) adjudged to have had the best performance in a game or over a season for a given sporting club or competition. The awards are sometimes dependent on not receiving a suspensi ...

. Millis won the award again the following season.

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* 1881 births 1950 deaths Australian rules footballers from Melbourne Fitzroy Football Club players Fitzroy Football Club premiership players Mitchell Medal winners VFL/AFL premiership players People from Fitzroy, Victoria {{AFL-bio-1881-stub