John McGuire (sportsman)

Last updated

John McGuire
Personal information
Full name John Peter McGuire
Date of birth (1954-07-14) 14 July 1954 (age 69)
Original team(s) Northam
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
1973–1979 East Perth 85 (19)
1980–1983 Perth 27 (8)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1983.

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

Contents

Biography

McGuire attended Guildford Grammar School between 1970 and 1972. He and his wife Karen share a son and a daughter. [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]

He then transferred to the Perth Football Club in 1980.

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Polly Farmer</span> Australian rules footballer and coach (1935–2019)

Graham Vivian "Polly" Farmer was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and the East Perth Football Club and West Perth Football Club in the Western Australian National Football League (WANFL).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Neil Hawke</span> Australian sportsman

Neil James Napier Hawke was an Australian Test cricketer and leading Australian rules footballer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Guildford Grammar School</span> School in Western Australia

Guildford Grammar School, informally known as Guildford Grammar, Guildford or GGS, is an independent Anglican coeducational primary and secondary day and boarding school, located in Guildford, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia.

Established in 1905 the Public Schools Association, or the PSA, is an association of seven independent boys schools in Perth, Western Australia. The descriptor 'public school' references the historical usage of the term and the model of the British public school. The schools compete against each other in athletic competition throughout the year. There are three main events held annually; the Head of the River rowing regatta, The Interschool Athletics Carnival, and the Interschool Swimming Carnival.

Karl John Langdon is a sports commentator and radio personality in Western Australia and a former Australian rules footballer with the Subiaco Football Club and the West Coast Eagles.

The 1988 NSWRL season was the 81st season of professional rugby league football in Australia, and saw the first expansion of the New South Wales Rugby League Premiership outside the borders of New South Wales, and another expansion outside of Sydney, with the addition of three new teams: the Brisbane Broncos, Newcastle Knights and Gold Coast-Tweed Giants. The largest NSWRL premiership yet, sixteen clubs competed during the 1988 season, with the J J Giltinan Shield for minor premiers going to Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks. The finals culminated in a grand final for the Winfield Cup between the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs and Balmain Tigers. This season NSWRL teams also competed for the 1988 Panasonic Cup.

Ryan Edwin Turnbull is a former Australian rules footballer who represented the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL). Turnbull was a member of the Eagles' 1994 premiership side, and was the club's first-choice ruckman for much of the 1990s. He also played with the Claremont and East Perth Football Clubs in the West Australian Football League (WAFL), and was awarded the Sandover Medal in 2001 as the best player in the competition, as well as winning the Simpson Medal in 2001 and 2002 as the best player in the league's grand final. In State of Origin football, Turnbull represented Western Australia in five matches between 1992 and 1999, and captained a Western Australian representative team in 2003.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Perth Stadium</span> Stadium in Perth, Western Australia

Perth Stadium, currently known as Optus Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-purpose stadium in Perth, Western Australia, located in the suburb of Burswood. It was completed in late 2017 and officially opened on 21 January 2018. The stadium's total capacity is 61,266, including standing room, making it the third-largest stadium in Australia. The stadium can be extended up to 65,000 seats for rectangular sports.

Western Australian Premier Cricket is a club cricket cricket competition played at a level below the first-class Western Warriors and other state teams. The competition is administered by the Western Australian Cricket Association. It is the premier club cricket competition in Western Australia and players vying for Western Warriors and national team selection are typically chosen from Premier Cricket competition clubs. Retiring international and first-class players wishing to continue playing will generally return to their original Premier Cricket club. There are currently 16 teams in the competition.

Mount Lawley District Cricket Club is a semi-professional cricket club which plays in Western Australian Grade Cricket competition which is now referred as Western Australian Premier Cricket. The club joined the Western Australian Cricket Association "A" grade district competition as the Maylands-Mount Lawley Cricket Club in 1924-25 after having applied for entry two years earlier. The name was changed to Mount Lawley Cricket Club in 1927–28.

Peter Thorne is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Luke Miles is an Australian rules footballer who has played for the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL) and Swan Districts Football Club in the Western Australian Football League (WAFL).

Gerrick Peter Weedon is an Australian rules footballer who previously played with the Claremont Football Club in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL). Originally from the Kimberley region of Western Australia, Weedon moved to Perth to play for Claremont, before being recruited by West Coast with the 22nd pick overall in the 2009 National Draft, playing his first game for the club in round seven of the 2011 season. Due to his inability to break into West Coast's senior side, Weedon spent most of his time at the club playing in the WAFL, playing in Claremont's premiership sides in both 2011 and 2012. He was delisted from West Coast at the end of the 2012 season.

Darren Harris is a former Australian rules football coach and player, who spent significant parts of his career in the Australian Football League, West Australian Football League, and Ovens & Murray Football League.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stephen Coniglio</span> Australian rules footballer

Stephen Coniglio is a professional Australian rules footballer for the Greater Western Sydney Giants in the Australian Football League (AFL). Drafted with the second pick in the 2011 AFL national draft, Coniglio made his debut for Greater Western Sydney in the first round of the 2012 season and was later nominated for the 2012 AFL Rising Star award. He was the sole captain of the Giants for the 2020 and 2021 seasons, and a co-captain for the 2022 season.

Irwin Lewis was an indigenous Australian artist, who was previously a notable scholar, sportsman and public servant. Best known as the father of Australian rules footballer Chris Lewis, a member of the West Coast Eagles' AFL premiership-winning teams in 1992 and 1994, he has been described as "something of a celebrity in Perth".

Gerald Ugle is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Greater Western Sydney Giants in the Australian Football League (AFL).

References

  1. "Cricket". Guildford Grammar School. Archived from the original on 9 July 2011. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
  2. 1 2 "Accomplished Old Guildfordians" (PDF). The Old Guildfordians Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 August 2011. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
  3. "Mount Lawley (ML) – Club Records" (PDF). Fixture Book 2010–2011. Western Australian Cricket Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 April 2011. 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. Archived from the original on 10 August 2010. 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 26 March 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
  8. "Premiership Teams". East Perth Football Club. Archived from the original on 25 May 2011. 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.