Jim Toohey Jr. | |
Fullname: | James Leslie Toohey |
Birth Date: | 1 June 1915 |
Birth Place: | Carlton, Victoria[1] |
Originalteam: | Sandhurst |
Height: | 185 cm |
Weight: | 92 kg |
Club1: | Fitzroy |
Years1: | 1935–1936 |
Games Goals1: | 21 (15) |
Club2: | Perth |
Years2: | 1937 |
Games Goals2: | 11 (6) |
Club3: | Fitzroy |
Years3: | 1938 |
Games Goals3: | 14 (17) |
Club4: | Camberwell |
Years4: | 1939 |
Statsend: | 1938 |
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).
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]