Jack Flanigan | |
Fullname: | John George Flanigan (5) |
Birth Date: | 29 April 1905 |
Birth Place: | Oxley, Victoria |
Death Place: | Kialla, Victoria |
Originalteam: | Moyhu |
Height: | 184 cm |
Weight: | 83 kg |
Statsend: | 1930 |
Years1: | 1930 |
Games Goals1: | 5 (1) |
John George Flanigan, uses the family name Flanagan (29 April 1905 – 30 September 1978) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1] Throughout his career as a player, he played 5 games and scored 1 goal in that period of time.[2]
Flanigan finished third in the 1933 Ovens & King Football League best and fairest award, the John Hughes Medal, when playing with the Moyhu Football Club.[3]
Flanigan coached Beechworth in 1936 and 1937, which included the 1937 Ovens & King Football League premiership.[4]
He was the older brother of Bob Flanigan from Footscray and Essendon.[5]
5. John George (Jack) used the family name Flanagan, his words - "that is what is on my birth record, that is who I am", the family name in inconsistent in birth records, his VFL playing brother Robert Edwin (Bob, Bluestone) used Flanigan - Ray Canning (nephew)