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
- ^ Holmesby & Main (2014), p. 204.
- ^ Deaths: Dalton, The Age, (Wednesday, 4 June 1890), p. 1.
- ^ Deaths: Dalton, The Argus, (Thursday, 1 May 1902), p. 1.
- ^ Deaths: Dalton, The Argus, (Saturday, 15 June 1940), p. 4.
- ^ Pennings (2016).
- ^ 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
External links
- Jack Dalton's playing statistics from AFL Tables
- Jack Dalton at AustralianFootball.com
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