Jack Dalton

Australian football player
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroAustralian football player
A.K.A.John George Dalton
A.K.A.John George Dalton
PlacesAustralia
wasAthlete Football player Australian-rules footballer
Work fieldSports
Gender
Male
Birth15 April 1876, Prahran, City of Stonnington, Melbourne, Australia
Death8 March 1923Sandringham, City of Bayside, Victoria, Australia (aged 46 years)
Star signAries
Sports Teams
Fitzroy Football Club (South Australia, Australia)
The details

Biography

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).

Family

The son of John James Dalton (1849-1890), and Margaret Dalton (1857-1902), née Manning, John George Dalton was born at Prahran, Victoria on 15 April 1876.

He married Clare Margaret O'Neill (1883-1940) in 1912. They had two children.

Football

Making his senior debut in 1896, 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.

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