Jack Dalton (footballer) explained

Jack Dalton
Fullname:	John George Dalton
Birth Date:	15 April 1876
Birth Place:	Prahran, Victoria
Death Place:	Sandringham, Victoria
Originalteam:	Fitzroy Juniors
Statsend:	1900
Years1:	1896
Club1:	Fitzroy (VFA)
Games Goals1:	17 (0)
Years2:	1897–1900
Club2:	Fitzroy
Games Goals2:	44 (0)
Careerhighlights:	VFL premiership player 1898

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).^[1]

Family

The son of John James Dalton (1849-1890),^[2] and Margaret Dalton (1857-1902), née Manning,^[3] John George Dalton was born at Prahran, Victoria on 15 April 1876.

He married Clare Margaret O'Neill (1883-1940) in 1912.^[4] They had two children.

Football

Making his senior debut in 1896,^[5] 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.^[6]

References

• Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2014), The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.), Melbourne, Victoria: Bas Publishing.
• Pennings, Mark (2016), Origins of Australian Football: Victoria's early History: Volume 4: Tough Times: Victorian Football loses its Way, 1891 to 1896, Brunswick, Victoria: Grumpy Monks Publishing.

Notes and References

1. Holmesby & Main (2014), p. 204.
2. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article196969630 Deaths: Dalton, The Age, (Wednesday, 4 June 1890), p. 1.
3. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article9086531 Deaths: Dalton, The Argus, (Thursday, 1 May 1902), p. 1.
4. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12472611 Deaths: Dalton, The Argus, (Saturday, 15 June 1940), p. 4.
5. Pennings (2016).
6. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1881421 Deaths: Dalton, The Argus, (Friday, 9 March 1923), p. 1.