Jack Dalton (footballer)

Jack Dalton
Dalton in 1899
Personal information
Full name John George Dalton
Date of birth (1876-04-15)15 April 1876
Place of birth Prahran, Victoria
Date of death 8 March 1923(1923-03-08) (aged 46)
Place of death Sandringham, Victoria
Original team(s) Fitzroy Juniors
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1896 Fitzroy (VFA) 17 (0)
1897–1900 Fitzroy 44 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1900.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

John George Dalton (15 April 1876 – 8 March 1923) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Fitzroy Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Family

The son of John James Dalton (1849-1890),[2] and Margaret Dalton (1857-1902), née Manning,[3] John George Dalton was born at Prahran, Victoria on 15 April 1876.

He married Clare Margaret O'Neill (1883-1940) in 1912.[4] They had two children.

Football

Making his senior debut in 1896,[5] the year before the inaugural VFL season, Dalton was a half back flanker in Fitzroy's 1898 premiership team. He missed out on Fitzroy's premiership the following season due to injury.

Death

He died at Sandringham, Victoria on 8 March 1923.[6]

Notes

  1. ^ Holmesby & Main (2014), p. 204.
  2. ^ Deaths: Dalton, The Age, (Wednesday, 4 June 1890), p. 1.
  3. ^ Deaths: Dalton, The Argus, (Thursday, 1 May 1902), p. 1.
  4. ^ Deaths: Dalton, The Argus, (Saturday, 15 June 1940), p. 4.
  5. ^ Pennings (2016).
  6. ^ Deaths: Dalton, The Argus, (Friday, 9 March 1923), p. 1.

References

  • Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2014), The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.), Melbourne, Victoria: Bas Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5
  • Pennings, Mark (2016), Origins of Australian Football: Victoria's early History: Volume 4: Tough Times: Victorian Football loses its Way, 1891 to 1896, Brunswick, Victoria: Grumpy Monks Publishing. ISBN 978-0-646-93604-8
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