John McCashney
Personal information
Full name John Henry McCashney
Date of birth (1884-01-21)21 January 1884
Place of birth Trentham, Victoria
Date of death 23 April 1952(1952-04-23) (aged 68)
Place of death Benalla
Original team(s) Trentham
Height 177 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 74 kg (163 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1903 South Melbourne 2 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1903.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

John Henry McCashney (21 January 1884 – 23 April 1952) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

McCashney was the third of ten children born to Henry William McCashney and Mary Anne Robson. McCashney's family owned a sawmill at Trentham and he commenced his football career playing with the Trentham club.[2] In 1903 he played two games towards the end of the season with South Melbourne. He also played football with the Kyneton Football Club. Two of his brothers, Frank McCashney (Richmond) and Jim McCashney (Hawthorn), also played VFL football.

He served in the Western Front in World War I, receiving severe injuries in June 1917 and returning home at the end of that year.[3] He married Myrtle Veronica Thompson in 1922 and they lived in Benalla and had four children. He ran sawmills in the Toombullup and Mansfield districts up until his death in 1952.[4]

Notes

  1. ↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2009). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (8th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-00-4.
  2. ↑ "Maryborough Castlemaine Football League". Herald Sun. 9 April 2010.
  3. ↑ "Private John Henry McCashney". AIF Project.
  4. ↑ "OBITUARY". Benalla Ensign. Victoria. 24 April 1952. p. 7 – via National Library of Australia.


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