John McGuire (sportsman)

John McGuire
Personal information
Full name John Peter McGuire
Date of birth (1954-07-14) 14 July 1954
Original team(s) Northam
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1973-1979 East Perth 85 (19)
1 Playing statistics correct to end of 1979 season.

John Peter McGuire (born 14 July 1954) is a former Australian rules football player and cricketer. He is of Aboriginal descent.

Biography

McGuire attended Guildford Grammar School between 1970 and 1972.[1][2]

Cricket

McGuire played most of his career for Mount Lawley District Cricket Club in Western Australian Grade Cricket and is second in the all-time runscoring list for the first grade competition, scoring 10,004 runs. He also holds several club records, including the most career runs (9204) and the most career catches (160).[3]

In January 1988 he captained a team of Aboriginal players who played a Prime Minister's XI personally captained by Bob Hawke. The team later in the year toured England to mark the Australian Bicentenary.[4][5][6][7]

Australian rules football

McGuire played 85 games for East Perth Football Club in the West Australian Football League, including the 1978 premiership-winning team.[2][8][9]

References

  1. ↑ "Cricket". Guildford Grammar School. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
  2. 1 2 "Accomplished Old Guildfordians" (PDF). The Old Guildfordians Association. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
  3. ↑ "Mount Lawley (ML) – Club Records" (PDF). Fixture Book 2010–2011. Western Australian Cricket Association. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
  4. ↑ "Bats Test". Glasgow Herald. 14 May 1988. Retrieved 25 June 2011.
  5. ↑ Mallett, Ashley (2002). The Black Lords of Summer. University of Queensland Press. ISBN 978-0-7022-3262-6.
  6. ↑ "Ashes of Dark Past". Brisbane Times. 21 June 2009. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
  7. ↑ Hawke, Bob (7 December 1988). Speech by the Prime Minister (Speech). Launch of Dreaming of Lords. Parliament House, Canberra. Archived from the original on 2012-03-26. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
  8. ↑ "Premiership Teams". East Perth Football Club. Retrieved 24 June 2011. Surname misspelt as Maguire
  9. ↑ "Every League Premiership Player in Page Finals System Era – 1931 – 2009". West Australian Football League. p. 10. Retrieved 19 September 2011.
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