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Fred Macquire
Personal information
Full name Fred Macquire
Date of birth (1936-11-21) 21 November 1936 (age 87)
Original team(s) North Colts
Height 178 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 74 kg (163 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1956–1959 North Melbourne 15 (2)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1959.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Fred Macquire (born 21 November 1936, also (mistakenly) referred to as MacGuire or MacQuire) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Family

The son of Frederick James Charles Macquire (1900-?) and Ellen Cecilia Macquire (?-1945) (née Jenkins),[2] Macquire was born 21 November 1936. In business with his father, Macquire was both a professional fishmonger[3] and a professional bookmaker — as a bookmaker, his father was widely known as "Fishy" Macquire.[4]

Football

External image
image icon Photograph of Macquire's bagman at the Victorian Spring Racing Carnival (1980s).
Source: State Library of Victoria Collection[5]

At 16, he was playing at centre half-forward for North-West in the semi-finals of Melbourne's Sunday Amateur Football League (SAFL): "a high-flyer that has bundles of pace, [Macquire] can be a match-winner. … If [Collingwood's half-back players] can hold this brilliant footballer, then they'll be half-way to victory." [6]

He was listed as "Supplementary" on the club's Training List for 1956;[7] and he played for the Second XVII in the first three rounds of 1956.[8] Having been the best North Melbourne player in the Second XVII team's loss to Essendon—Essendon 12.25 (97), North Melbourne 9.5 (59) -- in Round 3,[9] he played his first senior match for North Melbourne in Round 4, on Saturday, 5 May 1956, against Carlton, on the half-back flank,[10] at Princes Park.[11] In his ninth senior match (Round 12, 7 July 1956), he was selected as 20th man against St Kilda at the Junction Oval. He came on after half-time, and was almost immediately involved in a tussle with St Kilda's Jack McDonald. McDonald was reported for punching Macquire, and was subsequently suspended for four weeks.[12] In the Round 16 match, against Fitzroy, played at Arden Street, on Saturday, 4 August 1956, Macquire broke a bone in his hand, and was not able to play until the next season.[13]

On 21 September 1957 he played on the half-forward flank for the North Melbourne Second XVIII team that defeated Fitzroy and won the VFL Seconds' Premiership by four points: North Melbourne 14.13 (97); Fitzroy 13.15 (93). He kicked three goals, and was one of the best on the ground.[14]

At the beginning of the 1960 season, North Melbourne removed Macquire from its training list on the grounds that he had retired.[15]

Notes

  1. ^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 539. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. ^ Death Notice: Macquire (nee Jenkins), The Argus, (Friday, 13 July 1945), p.2;Death Notice: Macquire (nee Jenkins), The Age, (Friday, 13 July 1945), p.6.
  3. ^ Moses, K., "Recruits, Liniment Move in at North", The Argus, (Tuesday, 1 March 1955), p.20; City Budget-Balancers Try the Markets . . and Zero Hour's 11 O'Clock, The Argus, (Saturday, 1 September 1951), p.20; Macquire Seafoods: End of an Era, Seafood News, Vol.7, No.9, (November 2009), p.3.
  4. ^ VRC Announces New Fielders in Paddock Ring, The Argus, (Friday, 13 June 1947), p.9; Indemnity Sought in Bets Tax Case, The Argus, (Friday, 25 March 1955), p.9; Moon, T., "Bookies? I Like Them — Premier", The Argus, (Thursday, 16 August 1956), p.16.
  5. ^ (State Library of Victoria Image H2010.104/2582).
  6. ^ Bye, P., "North-West to Beat Magpies", The Sporting Globe, (Saturday, 7 August 1954), p.8.
  7. ^ League Training Lists: North Melbourne, The Age, (Monday, 9 April 1956), p.18
  8. ^ 'How we do it at North', The Argus, (Tuesday, 6 May 1956), p.17.
  9. ^ League Seconds Details, The Age, (Monday, 30 April 1956), p.13.
  10. ^ How Your Team Will Line Up, The Argus, (Friday, 4 May 1956), p.23.
  11. ^ North Changes, The Age, (Friday, 4 May 1956), p.12.
  12. ^ An uppercut ousts Saint for 4 weeks, The Argus, (Wednesday, 11 July 1956), p.22; St Kilda Man Out for Four Weeks, The Age, (Wednesday, 11 July 1956), p.16.
  13. ^ Carroll May Not Play Again This Season, The Age, (Monday, 6 August 1956), p.18; It Wasn't a Good Shepherd — It Broke His Arm, The Argus, (Tuesday, 7 August 1956), p.15.
  14. ^ North Seconds Side Stronger, The Age, (Friday, 20 September 1957), p.30; Improved North for Seconds' Flag, The Age, (Saturday, 21 September 1957), p.16; Carter, R., "Game Last-Quarter Bid Lands Win for North", The Age, (Monday, 23 September 1957), p.16.
  15. ^ League Training Lists: North Melbourne, The Age, (Monday, 11 April 1960), p.22.
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