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Jim Toohey Jr.

Jim Toohey Jr.

Australian rules footballer, born 1915

James Leslie Toohey Jr. (1 June 1915 – 10 February 2004) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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Toohey, a Sandhurst recruit, started out in the Fitzroy seconds in 1934.[2] He began his league career in 1935, when he played seven senior games, which was bettered by 14 appearances in 1938.[3]

In 1937, Toohey joined Western Australian National Football League club Perth.[4] His father, former Fitzroy player Jim Toohey Sr., was a member of the Perth Football Club committee.[5] He had to wait until mid-season to make his debut, in order to fulfill the three-month residential qualification required to get an interstate permit at that time.[6]

Toohey returned to Fitzroy after just one season in Perth and made 14 league appearances in the 1938 VFL season.[3]

He was cleared to Camberwell in 1939.[7]

Toohey's younger brother, Jack, played with Fitzroy for six seasons, from 1947 to 1952.[8]

References

  1. [1]
    "WW2 Nominal Roll". Australian Government.
  2. [2]
    "Cashman Cleared to Carlton League Permits". The Argus. Melbourne. 24 May 1934. p. 11. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
  3. [3]
    "Jim Toohey". AFL Tables.
  4. [4]
    "Perth v. East Fremantle". Sunday Times. Perth. 4 April 1937. p. 4. Retrieved 17 March 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. [5]
    "FOOTBALL". The Daily News. Perth. 6 March 1937. p. 8. Retrieved 17 March 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. [6]
    "Toohey Has a 'Gallop'". The Daily News. Perth. 4 June 1937. p. 6. Retrieved 17 March 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. [7]
    "Toohey Has Two Engagements". The Argus. Melbourne. 5 May 1939. p. 20. Retrieved 17 March 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. [8]
    Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia Of AFL Footballers. BAS Publishing. ISBN 9781920910785.


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