Jack Sheehan (footballer)
| Jack Sheehan | |||
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| Personal information | |||
| Full name | John Joseph Sheehan | ||
| Date of birth | 29 May 1890 | ||
| Place of birth | South Melbourne, Victoria | ||
| Date of death | 17 June 1933 (aged 43) | ||
| Place of death | Heidelberg, Victoria | ||
| Original team(s) | St Ignatius | ||
| Height | 165 cm (5 ft 5 in)[1] | ||
| Weight | 73 kg (161 lb) | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1911 | Collingwood | 3 (0) | |
| 1912 | Melbourne | 0 (0) | |
| 1915, 1917 | Richmond | 14 (0) | |
| Total | 17 (0) | ||
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1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1917. | |||
| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
John Joseph Sheehan (29 May 1890 – 17 June 1933) was an Australian rules footballer who played with the Collingwood Football Club and Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[2] He was also listed with the Melbourne Football Club, but never played a game.[3]
Military service
[edit]He enlisted in the First AIF on 12 July 1915. He did not serve overseas. He was discharged from the AIF on 6 November 1916, on medical grounds, subsequent to surgery for a rectal fistula.
Football
[edit]New South Wales
[edit]He was the coach of the New South Wales team at the sixth Australian National Football Carnival, held in Melbourne in August 1927.
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ His military shows that in November 1915, aged 25 years and two months, he was 5ft. 5in. (165cm) tall, and weighed 11 stone 7lbs (73kg.).
- ^ Holmesby & Main (2014), p.810
- ^ "WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1913". The Examiner. Launceston, Tasmania. 16 April 1913. p. 2. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
References
[edit]- Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
- Hogan P: The Tigers Of Old, Richmond FC, (Melbourne), 1996. ISBN 0-646-18748-1
- World War One Service Record: John Joseph Sheehan, National Archives of Australia.
External links
[edit]- Jack Sheehan's playing statistics from AFL Tables
- Jack Sheehan at AustralianFootball.com
- Jack Sheehan's profile at Collingwood Forever
- Jack Sheehan on Demonwiki
- John Joseph Sheehan, at New South Wales Australian Football History Society.
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