Con McCarthy

Con McCarthy
Con McCarthy
Personal information
Full name	John Cornelius McCarthy
Date of birth	10 February 1893
Place of birth	Collingwood, Victoria
Date of death	19 June 1975 (aged 82)
Place of death	St Kilda East, Victoria
Original team(s)	Fairfield
Height	180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	89 kg (196 lb)
Playing career1
Years	Club
1915–1921	Collingwood
1925–1926	Footscray
Total
Coaching career3
Years	Club
1925	Footscray
	1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1926. 3 Coaching statistics correct as of 1925.
Career highlights
	Collingwood premiership player 1917; Collingwood premiership captain 1919; Collingwood captain 1919; Footscray captains 1922–1926;
	Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

John Cornelius "Con" McCarthy (10 February 1893 – 19 June 1975)^[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood and Footscray in the VFL. He was known during his career as Con McCarthy.

Originally from Western Australia, McCarthy was a ruckman and started his league career in 1915 with Collingwood. He was a premiership player with them in 1917 and 1919, the latter as captain. He also captained Victoria during his career, leading the VFL to victory at the 1921 Perth Carnival.

In 1922, McCarthy joined Footscray in the VFA in 1922 as captain-coach on a lucrative deal, which saw him earn £10 per week, compared with the £2/10/– per week he had earned at Collingwood. Footscray at the time was a rich and ambitious club attempting to gain admission to the VFL, and it made several aggressive recruiting plays like this to further its case; the Sporting Globe commented that McCarthy was the first "big money" player in the game.^[2] As captain-coach, McCarthy led Footscray to back-to-back VFA premierships in 1923 and 1924. When Footscray was admitted to the VFL in 1925, McCarthy was their inaugural captain and coach; he continued as captain in 1926, before retiring at the end of the 1926 season.

References

^ "Con McCarthy". Collingwood Forever. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
^ "First in "Big Money" Football". The Sporting Globe. Melbourne. 21 August 1926. p. 6.

External links

Con McCarthy's playing statistics from AFL Tables
Con McCarthy's coaching record at AFL Tables
Con McCarthy at AustralianFootball.com

[1] "Con McCarthy". Collingwood Forever. Retrieved 4 September 2014.

[appraisal-2] "First in "Big Money" Football". The Sporting Globe. Melbourne. 21 August 1926. p. 6.

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v t e Collingwood Football Club 1917/19 VFL premiers
1917: Collingwood 9.20 (74) defeated Fitzroy 5.9 (39), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground 1919: Collingwood 11.12 (78) defeated Richmond 7.11 (53), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
3/2. Curtis 8/5. Drummond 10/6. Hughes 13. Lee 14/11. Laxton 18/14. McCarthy (c 1919) 19/15. Pannam 20/16. Reynolds 23/18. Saunders 26/10. Lumsden 27/12. Mutch
Coach: McHale

v t e Coaches of the Footscray Football Club/Western Bulldogs
VFL/AFL	1925: McCarthy 1926: Saunders 1926: Cassidy 1927–1928: Scanlan 1929: Eason 1930: Hopkins 1931–1933: Cubbins 1934–1935: Morrison 1935–1937: Coventry 1937–1940: Kelly 1941–1942: Ware 1943–1946: Olliver 1947: Crowe 1948–1950: Olliver 1951–1957: Sutton 1957–1966: Whitten 1967–1968: Sutton 1969–1971: Whitten 1972–1975: Rose 1976–1978: Goggin 1978–1979: McKenzie 1980–1982: Hart 1982–1983: Hampshire 1984–1989: Malthouse 1990–1994: Wheeler 1994–1996: Joyce 1996–2002: Wallace 2002–2004: Rohde 2005–2011: Eade 2011: Williams 2012–2014: McCartney 2015–: Beveridge
AFL Women's	2017–2019: Groves 2020–: Burke
Italics denote caretaker coach