Jack Sheehan (footballer)
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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) | ||
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
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
New South Wales
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
Notes
- ^ 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
- 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
- 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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