Michael Maguire (footballer)

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Mick Maguire
Personal information
Date of birth6 June 1894
Place of birthRichmond, Victoria
Date of death5 June 1950
Place of deathLondon, England
Original teamChristian Brothers, Abbotsford
Debut1910, Richmond
Playing career1

Richmond (1910-1912) 39 games, 62 goals

Melbourne (1912-1914)

19 games, 23 goals

Collingwood (1918) 9 games, 10 goals
1 Playing statistics correct to end of 2006 season.
Career highlights


Michael 'Mick' Maguire (6 June 1894–1950) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Richmond Football Club in the VFL from 1910 to Round 8 of the 1912 season, then played for the Melbourne Football Club for the rest of 1912 to 1914. Finally he played for the Collingwood Football Club in 1918.

He holds the record as the youngest player to have played senior football at Richmond, being only 15 years and 328 days old upon debut in Round 1 of the 1910 season.[1] Despite this, he was the club's leading goalkicker in his debut year. He also gained some notoriety as a welterweight boxer between 1912 and 1915.[2]

Maguire's Bellevue hotel accommodated the English Cricket Team during the Fourth Test of the 'Bodyline' Series
Maguire was a well known publican in Melbourne, operating the Bull and Mouth Hotel in Melbourne, and after 1932, The Bellevue Hotel in Brisbane. He was father to five daughters; sometimes known as "the fabulous Maguires." Two daughters married members of the English nobility and Mary Maguire was briefly a Hollywood and British film actress in the late 1930s. Maguire served in the British Army in World War Two and died in England in 1950.[3]

References

  1. ↑ The Argus, Melbourne, 20 April, 1939
  2. ↑ Boxing Record Accessed 11/25/2013
  3. ↑ Obituary The Argus, Melbourne, 7 June 1950


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