Jack Ashley (Australian footballer)

{{short description|Australian rules footballer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}}

{{Use Australian English|date=October 2012}}

{{Infobox AFL biography

| name = John Ashley

| image = File:Jack_Ashley_Port_Adelaide_1914.jpg

| fullname = William John Ashley

| nickname = Jack, Spud

| birth_date = 14 May 1890

| birth_place = Fisherville, South AustraliaWilliam John Ashley, son of William Ashley and Alice Emma Hayman. Australia, Birth Index, 1788-1922

| death_date =3 December 1968 (age 78){{cite news|title=He Slipped Under the Radar|url=http://nswfootballhistory.com.au/he-slipped-under-the-radar/|access-date=8 August 2017|publisher=NSW Australian Football History Society Inc|date=20 May 2014|language=en-AU}}{{cite news|title=Deaths|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=lL5f5cZgq8MC&dat=19681205&printsec=frontpage&hl=en |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=5 December 1968 |page=24}}

| death_place = Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

| originalteam = Balmain

| height =

| weight =

| position = Follower, Ruck Shield

| years1 = 1907–1909

| club1 = Balmain

| games_goals1 =

| years2 = 1910–1911

| club2 = East Sydney

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| years3 = 1912–1915

| club3 = Port Adelaide

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| years4 = 1919

| club4 = Port Adelaide

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| sooyears1 = 1911

| sooteam1 = New South Wales

| soogames_goals1 = 4

| sooyears2 = 1914-1919

| sooteam2 = South Australia

| soogames_goals2 = 7

| statsend = 1919

| careerhighlights =

• 1x Champions of Australia team member (1913)
• 2x Port Adelaide premiership player (1913, 1914)
• East Sydney premiership player (1911)
• Magarey Medal (1914)
• 2x Port Adelaide best and fairest (1914, 1919)
• NSWAFA best & fairest (1911){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article209944051 |title=FOOTBALL. |newspaper=The Express And Telegraph |volume=XLIX |issue=14,604 |location=South Australia |date=2 May 1912 |access-date=7 June 2017 |page=6}}

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William John Ashley (14 May 1890 – 3 December 1968) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Port Adelaide in the SAFL from 1912 to 1915 and 1919.