John Peter McGuire (born 14 July 1954) is a former

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player and

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er. He is of Aboriginal descent.

Biography

McGuire attended

Guildford Grammar School 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. Initia ...

between 1970 and 1972. He and his wife Karen share a son and a daughter.

Cricket

McGuire played most of his career for

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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). In January 1988 he captained a team of Aboriginal players who played a

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personally captained by

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. The team later in the year toured England to mark the

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Australian rules football

McGuire played 85 games for

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in the

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, including the 1978 premiership-winning team. He then transferred to the Perth Football Club in 1980.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mcguire, John Living people 1954 births East Perth Football Club players Indigenous Australian players of Australian rules football People educated at Guildford Grammar School Indigenous Australian cricketers Cricketers from Western Australia Australian rules footballers from Western Australia People from Northam, Western Australia