Noel Leary is a former Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

er who played for Melbourne

Melbourne Football Club

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 in the Victorian Football League

Australian Football League

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 (VFL) during the early 1970s.

Leary, originally from Ulverstone, failed to make much of an impact at Melbourne, despite winning the reserves' best and fairest

Best and Fairest

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 award in 1973. He did however became a prominent player in the Tasmanian Football League

Tasmanian Football League

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, firstly at Sandy Bay

Sandy Bay Football Club

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 and then at Clarence

Clarence Football Club

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. He captain-coached Clarence to premierships in 1979 and 1981.

He was one of the inaugural inductees into the Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame

Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame

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when it was launched in 2005.