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Jack Sheehan (footballer)

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Jack Sheehan
Personal information
Full name John Joseph Sheehan
Date of birth (1890-05-29)29 May 1890
Place of birth South Melbourne, Victoria
Date of death 17 June 1933(1933-06-17) (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 03 (0)
1912 Melbourne 00 (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

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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

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New South Wales

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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

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Notes

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  1. ^ 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.).
  2. ^ Holmesby & Main (2014), p.810
  3. ^ "WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1913". The Examiner. Launceston, Tasmania. 16 April 1913. p. 2. Retrieved 6 June 2015.

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