Jack Moriarty

Jack Moriarty
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Personal information
Full name	Geoffrey John Moriarty
Date of birth	(1901-04-30)30 April 1901
Place of birth	Fitzroy, Victoria
Date of death
Original team(s)	Essendon Association
Height/Weight	178 cm / 62 kg
Position(s)	Full-forward
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1922 1924–33 Total	Essendon Fitzroy	013 0(36) 157 (626) 170 (662)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1933 season.

Jack Moriarty (30 April 1901 – 5 September 1980) was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Career

Moriarty, the son of dual Fitzroy premiership player Geoff, was a lightly built full forward who became a spectacular success after leaving Essendon Football Club at the end of 1923 and crossing to Fitzroy Football Club. Despite standing only 5'10" (178 cm), and weighing approximately 60 kg, he had the ability to jump over opponents and take strong over-head marks, as well as being a goal-sneak. In each of his first three matches with Fitzroy, Moriarty kicked seven goals en route to a then VFL season record of 82.

Moriarty represented the VFL at the Hobart carnival in 1924 and went on to become a permanent fixture in Victorian sides for most of the next decade. He topped Fitzroy's goal kicking list every year between 1924 and 1933, except for 1930, and was voted the club's best and fairest player in 1927 during an era when an award of this type was not made every season. At the end of his career, Moriarty had booted 672 goals in his 170-game VFL career, at an average of almost four goals per game.

In 2004 Moriarty was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame.

Player honors:

• Fitzroy Best and Fairest 1927.
• Fitzroy Leading goalkicker 9 times (1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1931, 1932, 1933).
• Fitzroy Team of the Century.
• VFL Leading goalkicker Medal 1924.
• Essendon Leading goalkicker 1922.
• Victorian representative (11 games, 42 goals).

The Victorian Football League’s Interstate team that drew with South Australia, in Adelaide, 13.10 (88) to 11.22 (88) on Saturday, 16 June 1928.
Back Row: Jack Moriarty, Albert "Leeter" Collier, Hugh Dunbar, Gordon "Nuts" Coventry, Bob Johnson, Jack Baggott.
Second Row: Jack Vosti, Charlie Stanbridge, Arthur Stevens, Alex Duncan, Dick Taylor, Ted Baker.
Front Row: Basil McCormack, Arthur Rayson, Alan Geddes (vice-captain), Syd Coventry (captain), Barney Carr, Arthur “Bull” Coghlan, Herbert White.