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

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

  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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