Jack Price (Australian footballer)

Jack Price
Personal information
Full name John Frederick Price
Date of birth (1901-06-26)26 June 1901
Place of birth Camberwell, Victoria
Date of death 27 June 1941(1941-06-27) (aged 40)
Place of death Syria
Height 170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight - kg
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1925 Hawthorn 10 (2)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1925.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

John Frederick "Jack" Price (26 June 1901 – 27 June 1941) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Originally playing with Carlton reserves, Price transferred to Hawthorn during the 1925 VFL season[2] making 10 appearances and scoring 2 goals.

Price enlisted to serve in World War II in the 2/2nd Pioneer Battalion and was killed in action in Syria in 1941.[3]

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Notes

  1. ↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. ↑ "FOOTBALL". The Argus. Melbourne: National Library of Australia. 21 May 1925. p. 5.
  3. ↑ "Roll of Honour:John Frederick Price". Australian War Memorial.


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