Len Mortimer

{{Short description|Australian rules footballer and coach}}

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{{Infobox AFL biography

| name = Len Mortimer

| image = Len Mortimer 1905.jpg

| caption = Cigarette card of Mortimer in 1905

| fullname = Edward Lennox Mortimer

| birth_date = {{birth date|1886|4|24|df=y}}

| birth_place = Footscray, Victoria

| death_date = {{death date and age|1962|11|2|1886|4|24|df=y}}

| death_place = Footscray, Victoria

| originalteam = Williamstown (VFA)

| height = 178 cm

| weight = 74 kg

| position =

| statsend = 1915

| years1 = 1904–1905

| club1 = Williamstown (VFA)

| games_goals1 = {{0}}31 {{0}}(67)

| years2 = 1906–1915

| club2 = South Melbourne

| games_goals2 = 153 (289)

| careerhighlights = 1909 South Melbourne premiership

}}

Edward Lennox Mortimer (24 April 1886 – 2 November 1962){{Cite web|url=http://australianfootball.com/players/player/len%2Bmortimer/2182|title = Australian Football - Len Mortimer - Player Bio}} was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the VFL.{{cite book |title=The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 |last1=Holmesby|first1=Russell|last2=Main|first2=Jim |year=2014 |edition=10th |isbn=978-1-921496-32-5 |publisher=BAS Publishing |location=Seaford, Victoria |page=633}}

He was recruited from Williamstown, where he played 31 games and kicked 67 goals in 1904 and 1905. A full forward, he was the leading goalkicker in the 1905 Victorian Football Association, with a total of 48, and became the first Williamstown player to ever head the Association goalkicking list. In his first seven seasons in the VFL he topped South Melbourne's goalkicking charts and was a member of the club's inaugural premiership side in 1909.

In 1916, he was appointed as coach of Yarraville, which competed in the Victorian Junior Football Association at the time.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154556780 |title=PERMITS GRANTED |newspaper=Winner |issue=98 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=7 June 1916 |page=6}}