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Australian rules footballer

John Woollard

Personal information
Nickname(s)	Jack
Date of birth	(1880-05-18)18 May 1880
Place of birth	Brighton, South Australia
Date of death	14 July 1965(1965-07-14) (aged 85)
Place of death	Cheltenham, South Australia
Original team(s)	Brighton
Position(s)	Ruckman
Playing career
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1898–1900	West Adelaide	28 (14)
1901, 1907	Sturt	26 (3)
1902	West Torrens	14 (3)
1903	West Perth	18 (1)
1904	Mines Rovers	≈15
1905	Kalgoorlie City	≈14
1906	East Perth	17 (4)
1908–1910	Port Adelaide	38 (11)
Total		≈170
Representative team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
1901–1908	South Australia
Career highlights
Championship of Australia captain (1910) Port Adelaide premiership player (1910) Port Adelaide captain (1910) Inaugural Sturt player (1901) Inaugural East Perth league captain (1906)
Source: AustralianFootball.com

John "Jack" Woollard (18 May 1880 – 18 July 1965) was an Australian rules footballer who played at eight clubs across the South Australian Football League, West Australian Football League and Goldfields Football League.

Early football

John Woollard played his junior years at the Brighton Football Club in Adelaide.

Senior football career (1898–1910)

West Adelaide (1898–1900)

Sturt (1901)

John Woollard made his debut with Sturt at the same time as the club made its debut in the SAFA.

West Torrens (1902)

West Perth (1903)

Mines Rovers (1904)

During his year at Mines Rovers would lose the Gold Fields premiership to Railways by 3 points.

Kalgoorlie City (1905)

In reviewing a game between Kalgoorlie and Boulder the Kalgoorlie Miner said that "The Boulder had no man in their team to compare in point, of brilliance with Woollard".

East Perth (1906)

John Woollard was the first captain of East Perth when it was promoted to the WAFL in 1906.

Sturt (1907)

John Woollard made a return to Sturt for a season in 1907.

Port Adelaide (1908–1910)

John Woollard joined Port Adelaide in 1908. He would become captain in 1910 and lead the club to the 1910 SAFL premiership, the first of his career. In the pose season of 1910 Jack Woollard would captain the club to victories over East Fremantle, premiers of Western Australia and Collingwood, premiers of Victoria.

Woollard joined Port Adelaide on its trip to Tasmania in 1912.

Reputation

When Angelo Congear was asked who was the best skipper he has played under, without hesitation he nominated Jack Woollard. "Jack", he said,"always had things well organised, and one played under his guidance with every confidence."

References

"John WOOLLARD". rslvirtualwarmemorial.org.au. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
"Radcliffe - Younger - East Perth FC".
"Sturt – The Numbers – History – Sturt Football Club Inc. – Official Website". www.sturtfc.com.au. Archived from the original on 29 October 2016. Retrieved 11 November 2016.
"SPORTING". Kalgoorlie Miner. Vol. 10, no. 3040. Western Australia. 19 June 1905. p. 6. Retrieved 14 October 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
^ Devaney, John. "Australian Football – Jack Woollard – Player Bio". australianfootball.com. Retrieved 11 November 2016.
"PORT ADELAIDE FOOTBALL CLUB'S TASMANIAN TOUR". The Express and Telegraph. Vol. XLIX, no. 14, 679. South Australia. 1 August 1912. p. 8 (5 O'CLOCK EDITION SPORTS NUMBER). Retrieved 14 October 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
"A. CONGEAR". The Critic. Vol. XXXI, no. 1228. South Australia. 7 September 1921. p. 23. Retrieved 12 November 2016 – via National Library of Australia.

v t e Captains of the Port Adelaide Football Club
SANFL (seniors)	1870: Dale/Wald 1871: Stone 1872–1873: Middleton 1873: Sparnon 1874: Wells/Rann 1875: R. Sandilands 1876: Fletcher 1877–1879: Fletcher 1880: Atkins/Carter 1881: Fletcher/J. Sandilands 1882: Frayne/Kellett 1883: Le Messurier 1883–1885: Turpenny 1885: Kellett 1886–1889: Bushby 1890–1894: McKenzie 1895: Miers 1896–1898: McKenzie 1899–1900: H. Phillips 1901–1904: Hosie 1904–1905: J. Quinn 1906: Fletcher Jr. 1906–1907: Corston 1908: Strawns 1908–1909: Donaghy 1910: Woollard 1911: Dempster 1912: Cocks/Hosking 1913–1914: Londrigan 1915: McFarlane 1916–1918: Eaton 1919: Pope/McFarlane 1920: Olds/Robertson 1921: Oliver 1922: Howie 1923: Dayman 1924–1925: Keal 1926: Allingham 1927: Bampton 1928–1931: V. Johnson 1932–1933: Ween 1934: V. Johnson 1935: R. Johnson 1936–1937: Dermody 1938: Hender 1939–1940: R. Quinn 1940–1941: Reval 1942–1944: Roberts 1945–1947: R. Quinn 1948: Roberts 1949: Schumann 1950–1958: Williams 1959–1966: Motley 1967–1973: Cahill 1974–1978: Ebert 1979–1982: Cunningham 1983–1985: Ebert 1986–1990: Johnston 1991–1993: G. Phillips 1994–1996: Ginever
AFL	1997–2000: Wanganeen 2001–2005: Primus 2006–2008: Tredrea 2009–2012: Cassisi 2013–2018: Boak 2019: Jonas/Wines 2020–2023: Jonas 2024–: Rozee
AFLW	2022 (S7)–2023: E. Phillips 2024–: Cuthbertson
SANFL (reserves)	1997: Ginever 1998: Borlase 1999: D. Brown 2000–2003: Poole 2004–2005: T. Brown 2006–2007: Clayton 2008–2009: Ah Chee 2010–2013: Meiklejohn 2014–2018: Summerton 2019–2023: Sutcliffe 2024–: Moore
Port Adelaide joined the AFL as a separate entity to the SANFL side. The two clubs merged in 2014, and the SANFL side now functions as Port Adelaide's AFL reserves team.

v t e Coaches of the Port Adelaide Football Club
Men's	1870: Wald 1871: Stone 1872: Middleton 1873: Sparnon 1874: Rann 1875: R. Sandilands 1876–1879: Fletcher 1880: Atkins 1881: J. Sandilands 1882: Kellett 1883–1885: Turpenny 1886–1908: McGargill 1909–1910: Hosie 1911: Donaghy 1911: Woollard 1913–1914: Londrigan 1915: McFarlane 1919–1920: Hansen 1921: Hosking 1922: Howie 1923: Dayman 1924–1925: Hosie 1927–1931: Hosking 1932: Ween 1933: Dewar 1934–1935: Ashby 1936–1938: Hosking 1939–1940: Quinn 1940–1941: Reval 1942–1944: Hosking 1945–1947: Quinn 1948: Roberts 1949: McCarthy 1950–1958: F. Williams 1959–1966: Motley 1962–1973: F. Williams 1974–1982: Cahill 1983–1987: Ebert 1988–1996: Cahill 1996: S. Williams 1997–1998: Cahill 1999–2010: M. Williams 2010–2012: Primus 2012: Hocking 2013–: Hinkley
Women's	2022 (S7)–: Arnell
Italics denote caretaker coach

v t e 1910 Champions of Australia – Port Adelaide
Port Adelaide defeated Collingwood, at Adelaide Oval
Callinan Cocks Congear Curnow Dickson Hansen Hosking Magor McEwen O'Grady McFarlane Oliver Pope Rose Middleton Woollard (c)

v t e Port Adelaide Football Club • 1910 SAFL premiers
Port Adelaide 8.12 (60) defeated Sturt 5.11 (41), at Adelaide Oval
Cocks Congear Curnow Dempster Dewar Dickson Hansen Hosking Magor McEwen McFarlane Middleton O'Grady Oliver Rose Sangster Woodman Woollard (c)
Coach: Hosie

v t e South Australian Team – 1908 Jubilee Australasian Football Carnival
Western Australia 8.11 (59) defeated South Australia 8.5 (53), at Melbourne Cricket Ground, 22 August 1908 Victoria 10.15 (75) defeated South Australia 2.14 (26), at Melbourne Cricket Ground, 26 August 1908 South Australia 16.20 (116) defeated Tasmania 7.7 (49), at Melbourne Cricket Ground, 29 August 1908
Captain: Bahr Vice-Captain: Geddes Adcock Beare Bennett Chamberlain Dickson Ewers Gwynn Hewitt Hyman Johns Le Messurier Leahy Mack MacKenzie Stoddart Tierney Townsend Tredrea Wallace Woollard

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