Jack King (footballer, born 1879)
{{short description|Australian rules footballer}}
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{{Use Australian English|date=July 2016}}
{{Infobox AFL biography
| name = Jack King
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| fullname = John King
| birth_date = {{birth date|1879|01|15|df=y}}
| birth_place = Rutherglen, Victoria
| death_date = {{death date and age|1965|06|25|1879|01|15|df=y}}
| death_place = Rutherglen, Victoria
| originalteam = Rutherglen
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| position =
| statsend = 1904
| years1 = 1904
| club1 = {{AFL StK}}
| games_goals1 = 8 (0)
| careerhighlights = {{bulleted list|Inducted into the Stawell Gift Hall of Fame|Played in 11 O&MFL Premiership with Rutherglen|2003 – Rutherglen – Team of the Century|2008: O&MFL Hall of Fame}}
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John King (15 January 1879 – 25 June 1965) was an Australian rules footballer who was recruited from the Rutherglen Football Club and played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).{{cite book |title=The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 |last1=Holmesby|first1=Russell|last2=Main|first2=Jim |year=2014 |edition=10th |isbn=978-1-921496-32-5 |publisher=BAS Publishing |location=Seaford, Victoria |page=481}}
Family
One of the nine children of the vigneron Daniel King (1827-1903),[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article268677631 Death of Mr. D. King, Sen., The Rutherglen Sun and Chiltern Valley Advertiser, (Friday, 24 July 1903), p.2.] and Ellen King (1844-1923), née Slattery,[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article171247510 Rutherglen, The Advocate, (Thursday, 22 March 1923), p.33.] John King was born at Rutherglen, Victoria on 15 January 1879.
King was the older brother of James Bernard "Jim" King (1873-1929), the former South Melbourne and St. Kilda player, and of Christopher King (1883-1980), winner of the 1908 Stawell Gift.
Football
King played an incredible 26 years of senior football in the Ovens and Murray Football League, playing in 11 premierships with Rutherglen and was inducted into the O&MFL – Hall of Fame in 2008.{{cite web |url=http://hof.omfnl.com.au/~omfnlhof/index.php?view=item&catid=&id=18%3Ajack-king&option=com_hall_of_fame&Itemid=229 |website=Ovens and Murray FNL|title=Hall of Fame - Jack King - 2008 |publisher=O&MFNL}}
Professional athlete
=Sprinter=
Starting off an official handicap of 13 yards, he was a finalist in the 1907 Stawell Gift. With the field on their marks, he broke twice and was penalized another two yards. He came fourth.[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article186406808 Stawell Easter Gift, The Numurkah Leader, (Friday, 5 April), p.4.]
=Coach=
King, who "had a cinders track [on his Rutherglen farm] that replicated the exact gradient of the rise at Stawell",[https://www.theage.com.au/sport/bill-howards-stawell-gift-1966-20060415-ge24yf.html Bill Howard's Stawell Gift, 1966, The Age, 15 April 2006]. become a four-time Stawell Gift winning athletic coach: his younger brother, Chris King (1908), Clarrie Hearn (1929), Frank Bradley (1937), and Jack Hayes (1954).[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article134917761 Stawell Gift To Hayes, Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate, (Tuesday, 20 April 1954), p.3]). He also "helped" the 1952 winner, Lance Mann;[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49256977 Just a Veteran, THe Barrier Miner, (Saturday, 14 March 1953), p.2.] and, later, convinced dual Stawell Gift winner (1966 and 1967) Bill Howard to take up professional running in 1964.{{cite web |title=1966 - Bill Howard's Stawell Gift |url=https://www.theage.com.au/sport/bill-howards-stawell-gift-1966-20060415-ge24yf.html |via=Trove Newspapers |work=The Age |date=15 April 2006}}
Stawell Gift's Hall of Fame
King was inducted into the Stawell Gift – Hall of Fame.{{cite web |title=Stawell Gift – Hall of Fame |url=http://www.stawellgift.com/hall-of-fame/hall-of-fame-inductees/ |website=Stawell Gift |publisher=Stawell Gift}}
Notes
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External links
- {{AFL Tables|ref=J/Jack_King0.html}}
- {{AustralianFootball|ref=jack%2Bking/1919}}
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Category:Australian male sprinters
Category:Australian athletics coaches
Category:Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)