Jack Mulcahy
Personal information
Full name John George Mulcahy
Date of birth (1876-08-12)12 August 1876
Place of birth Clunes, Victoria
Date of death 12 August 1950(1950-08-12) (aged 74)
Place of death Glen Iris, Victoria
Original team(s) Montague Juniors[1]
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1899 Fitzroy 2 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1899.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

John George Mulcahy (12 August 1876 – 12 August 1950) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Family

The son of John Stephen Mulcahy (1852-1932),[2] and Margaret Jane Mulcahy (1856-1930), née Roberts,[3] John George Mulcahy was born on 12 August 1876.

He married Edith Annie Merrifield (1877-1951) on 17 December 1902.[4][5] They had two children: John Merrifield Mulcahy (1904-1987) and Charles Edgar Mulcahy (1906-1986).

He died on 12 August 1950.[6]

Football

He was recruited from the Montague Football Club,[7] a team in the Metropolitan Junior Football Association (MJFA) — more generally referred to in the press of the day as the Victorian Junior Football Association — the competition from which the teams that formed the VFL's Reserve Grade competition were drawn in 1919.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Fitzroy Premiers". The Argus. Melbourne, Vic.: National Library of Australia. 14 August 1899. p. 3. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
  2. ↑ Deaths: Mulcahy, The Argus, (Tuesday, 29 March 1932), p.1.
  3. ↑ Deaths: Mulcahy, The Argus, (Monday, 7 July 1930), p1.
  4. ↑ Marriages: Mulcahy—Merrifield, The Age, (Saturday, 10 January 1903), p.5.
  5. ↑ Deaths: Mulcahy, The Agus, (Wednesday 12 September 1951), p.14.
  6. ↑ Deaths: Mulcahy, The Age, (Monday, 14 August 1950), p.2; p.10.
  7. ↑ There had been a Montague Football Club, drawn from the South Melbourne district (cf. Montague railway station), that was competing in the pre-VFA days as early as 1872 (see, for instance: Sporting Notes, The (Melbourne) Herald, (Friday, 3 May 1872), p.3.

References

  • Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2009). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 8th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.


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