Jack P. Sullivan (2 April 1919 – 19 June 1990) was an

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

er who played with

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in the Victorian Football League (VFL).AFL Tables: Jack Sullivan
/ref> Sullivan, recruited from Ormond Amateur, started out at Richmond as a centre half-forward but was later used in the ruck and at

centre half-back In the sport of Australian rules football, the half-back line refers to the positions of the 3 players on the field that occupy the centre half-back and left and right half-back flank positions. Centre half-back The role of the centre half-back ...

. It was as a centre half-back that Sullivan played in the

1942 VFL Grand Final The 1942 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Essendon Football Club and Richmond Football Club, held at the Princes Park in Melbourne on 19 September 1942. It was the 44th annual Grand Final of the Victo ...

, but he wasn't able to steer his side to a win. He didn't feature at all in the 1944 and 1945 seasons, then played the first six rounds in 1946, before transferring to Williamstown. From 1947 to 1950, Sullivan was captain-coach of

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and led them to a TANFL premiership in the last of those years. He won the

William Leitch Medal The William Leitch Medal, named after the highly regarded former Australian rules player and Tasmanian Football Administrator William Douglas Leitch (1863-1943), was an annual award which was presented to the best and fairest player in the TANFL/ ...

in 1947 and represented Tasmania at the

1950 Brisbane Carnival The 1950 Brisbane Carnival was the 11th edition of the Australian National Football Carnival, an Australian rules football interstate The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, commonly known as the Inters ...

.''The Mercury'
"Captains Of The Big Game"
13 October 1950, p. 9

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sullivan, Jack 1919 births 1990 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Richmond Football Club players Ormond Amateur Football Club players Williamstown Football Club players Hobart Football Club players Hobart Football Club coaches William Leitch Medal winners