Jack King (footballer, born 1879)
| Jack King | |||
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| Personal information | |||
| Full name | John King | ||
| Date of birth | 15 January 1879 | ||
| Place of birth | Rutherglen, Victoria | ||
| Date of death | 25 June 1965 (aged 86) | ||
| Place of death | Rutherglen, Victoria | ||
| Original team(s) | Rutherglen | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1904 | St Kilda | 8 (0) | |
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1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1904. | |||
| Career highlights | |||
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| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
John King (15 January 1879 – 25 June 1965) was an Australian rules footballer who was recruited from the Rutherglen Football Club and played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]
Family
[edit]One of the nine children of the vigneron Daniel King (1827-1903),[2] and Ellen King (1844-1923), née Slattery,[3] John King was born at Rutherglen, Victoria on 15 January 1879.
King was the older brother of James Bernard "Jim" King (1873-1929), the former South Melbourne and St. Kilda player, and of Christopher King (1883-1980), winner of the 1908 Stawell Gift.
Football
[edit]King played an incredible 26 years of senior football in the Ovens and Murray Football League, playing in 11 premierships with Rutherglen and was inducted into the O&MFL – Hall of Fame in 2008.[4]
Professional athlete
[edit]Sprinter
[edit]Starting off an official handicap of 13 yards, he was a finalist in the 1907 Stawell Gift. With the field on their marks, he broke twice and was penalized another two yards. He came fourth.[5]
Coach
[edit]King, who "had a cinders track [on his Rutherglen farm] that replicated the exact gradient of the rise at Stawell",[6] become a four-time Stawell Gift winning athletic coach: his younger brother, Chris King (1908), Clarrie Hearn (1929), Frank Bradley (1937), and Jack Hayes (1954).[7] He also "helped" the 1952 winner, Lance Mann;[8] and, later, convinced dual Stawell Gift winner (1966 and 1967) Bill Howard to take up professional running in 1964.[9]
Stawell Gift's Hall of Fame
[edit]King was inducted into the Stawell Gift – Hall of Fame.[10]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 481. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
- ^ Death of Mr. D. King, Sen., The Rutherglen Sun and Chiltern Valley Advertiser, (Friday, 24 July 1903), p.2.
- ^ Rutherglen, The Advocate, (Thursday, 22 March 1923), p.33.
- ^ "Hall of Fame - Jack King - 2008". Ovens and Murray FNL. O&MFNL.
- ^ Stawell Easter Gift, The Numurkah Leader, (Friday, 5 April), p.4.
- ^ Bill Howard's Stawell Gift, 1966, The Age, 15 April 2006.
- ^ Stawell Gift To Hayes, Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate, (Tuesday, 20 April 1954), p.3).
- ^ Just a Veteran, THe Barrier Miner, (Saturday, 14 March 1953), p.2.
- ^ "1966 - Bill Howard's Stawell Gift". The Age. 15 April 2006 – via Trove Newspapers.
- ^ "Stawell Gift – Hall of Fame". Stawell Gift. Stawell Gift.
External links
[edit]- Jack King's playing statistics from AFL Tables
- Jack King at AustralianFootball.com