title: Jack Mulcahy (footballer)
text: # Jack Mulcahy (footballer)
  
  John George Mulcahy (12 August 1876 – 12 August 1950) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
  
  ## Family
  
  The son of John Stephen Mulcahy (1852-1932), and Margaret Jane Mulcahy (1856-1930), née Roberts, John George Mulcahy was born on 12 August 1876.
  
  He married Edith Annie Merrifield (1877-1951) on 17 December 1902. They had two children: John Merrifield Mulcahy (1904-1987) and Charles Edgar Mulcahy (1906-1986).
  
  He died on 12 August 1950.
  
  ## Football
  
  He was recruited from the Montague Football Club, a team in the Metropolitan Junior Football Association (MJFA) — more generally referred to in the press of the day as the Victorian Junior Football Association — the competition from which the teams that formed the VFL's Reserve Grade competition were drawn in 1919.
  
  ## Footnotes
  
  * ↑ "Fitzroy Premiers". The Argus. Melbourne, Vic.: National Library of Australia. 14 August 1899. p. 3. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
  * ↑ Deaths: Mulcahy, The Argus, (Tuesday, 29 March 1932), p.1.
  * ↑ Deaths: Mulcahy, The Argus, (Monday, 7 July 1930), p1.
  * ↑ Marriages: Mulcahy—Merrifield, The Age, (Saturday, 10 January 1903), p.5.
  * ↑ Deaths: Mulcahy, The Agus, (Wednesday 12 September 1951), p.14.
  * ↑ Deaths: Mulcahy, The Age, (Monday, 14 August 1950), p.2; p.10.
  * ↑ There had been a Montague Football Club, drawn from the South Melbourne district (cf. Montague railway station), that was competing in the pre-VFA days as early as 1872 (see, for instance: Sporting Notes, The (Melbourne) Herald, (Friday, 3 May 1872), p.3.
  