Jack Murray

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Jack Murray
Personal information
Place of birth	Western Australia
Playing career
Swan Districts (1935–1940,1945–1949) 172 games^[1]
Career highlights
WA State Team (4 times) Swan Medal (1939,1947)

Jack Murray is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the West Australian National Football League (WANFL).

Murray played 172 games from 1935 to 1940 and from 1945 to 1949, as either a ruckman or a defender, for the Swan Districts Football Club. "Had his career not been shortened by the war, he would almost certainly have been the Swans’ first ever 200 game footballer."^[2]

He made his interstate debut at the 1937 Perth carnival.^[3] against South Australia. In the period prior to World War Two, he played in 8 of Western Australia’s 9 matches, and after the war made a 9th appearance.^[2]

Murray won the fairest and best award at Swan Districts Football Club in 1939 and 1947^[2] and was selected in the Swan Districts Team of the Century in the back pocket.^[4]

References

↑ "Swan Districts Football Club – Playertracker – Jack Murray". 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-04.
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Jack Murray (Swan Districts), fullpointsfooty.net Retrieved 2010-08-13.
↑ 1937 Perth Carnival, fullpointsfooty.net Retrieved 2010-08-13.
↑ "Full Points Footy – Swan Districts Team of the Century". 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-04.

v t e Swan Districts Football Club – Team of the Century

FB Melrose Lawson Murray

HB Nowotny Castledine Bagley

C P. Narkle Baker Krepp

HF Manning Sidebottom Richardson

FF Bunton Holdsworth Boucher

R Slater Nesbit Walker

I Mullooly Holden K. Narkle Anderson Langsford Holmes Beecroft

Coach Todd

Persondata
Name	Murray, Jack
Alternative names
Short description	Australian rules footballer
Date of birth
Place of birth	Western Australia
Date of death
Place of death

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