Leslie Herbert 'Les' Rippon (30 December 1875 – 27 September 1949) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He became one of the club's first premiership players, playing in the 1900 VFL Grand Final, under the captaincy of Dick Wardill. Rippon made his debut against in round 1 of the 1898 VFL season, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
Family The son of Samuel Rippon (1845-1897),Deaths: Rippon, The Argus, (Monday, 13 December 1897), p.1. and Lucretia Eliza Rippon (1848-1899), née Butterworth,Marriages: Rippon—Butterworth, The Argus, (Friday, 25 August 1871), p.4.Deaths: Rippon, The Age, (Tuesday, 26 September 1899), p.1. Leslie Herbert Rippon was born at St Kilda, Victoria on 30 December 1875.Births: Rippon, The Age, (Thursday, 6 January 1876), p.2.
His brothers, Norm and Harold, also played for Melbourne in the VFL.
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