Jim Toohey Jr.
Personal information
Full name James Leslie Toohey
Date of birth (1915-06-01)1 June 1915
Place of birth Carlton, Victoria[1]
Date of death 10 February 2004(2004-02-10) (aged 88)
Original team(s) Sandhurst
Height 185 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Weight 92 kg (203 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1935–1936 Fitzroy 21 (15)
1937 Perth 11 (6)
1938 Fitzroy 14 (17)
1939 Camberwell
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1938.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

James Leslie Toohey Jr. (1 June 1915 – 10 February 2004) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Toohey, a Sandhurst recruit, started out in the Fitzroy seconds in 1934.[2] He began his league career in 1935, when he played seven senior games, which was bettered by 14 appearances in 1938.[3]

In 1937, Toohey joined Western Australian National Football League club Perth.[4] His father, former Fitzroy player Jim Toohey Sr., was a member of the Perth Football Club committee.[5] He had to wait until mid-season to make his debut, in order to fulfill the three-month residential qualification required to get an interstate permit at that time.[6]

Toohey returned to Fitzroy after just one season in Perth and made 14 league appearances in the 1938 VFL season.[3]

He was cleared to Camberwell in 1939.[7]

Toohey's younger brother, Jack, played with Fitzroy for six seasons, from 1947 to 1952.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "WW2 Nominal Roll". Australian Government.
  2. ↑ "Cashman Cleared to Carlton League Permits". The Argus. Melbourne. 24 May 1934. p. 11. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
  3. 1 2 "Jim Toohey". AFL Tables.
  4. ↑ "Perth v. East Fremantle". Sunday Times. Perth. 4 April 1937. p. 4. Retrieved 17 March 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ↑ "FOOTBALL". The Daily News. Perth. 6 March 1937. p. 8. Retrieved 17 March 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ↑ "Toohey Has a 'Gallop'". The Daily News. Perth. 4 June 1937. p. 6. Retrieved 17 March 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ↑ "Toohey Has Two Engagements". The Argus. Melbourne. 5 May 1939. p. 20. Retrieved 17 March 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. ↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia Of AFL Footballers. BAS Publishing. ISBN 9781920910785.


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