Fred Macquire

Fred Macquire
Personal information
Full name Fred Macquire
Date of birth (1936-11-21) 21 November 1936
Original team(s) North Colts
Height / weight 178 cm / 74 kg
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1956–1959 North Melbourne 15 (2)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1959.

Fred Macquire (born 21 November 1936, also (mistakenly) referred to as MacGuire or MacQuire) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Family

The son of Frederick James Charles Macquire (1900-?) and Ellen Cecilia Macquire (?-1945) (née Jenkins),[2] Macquire was born 21 November 1936. In business with his father, Macquire was both a professional fishmonger[3] and a professional bookmaker — as a bookmaker, his father was widely known as "Fishy" Macquire.[4]

Football

External image
Photograph of Macquire's bagman at the Victorian Spring Racing Carnival (1980s).
Source: State Library of Victoria Collection[5]

At 16, he was playing at centre half-forward for North-West in the semi-finals of Melbourne's Sunday Amateur Football League (SAFL): "a high-flyer that has bundles of pace, [Macquire] can be a match-winner. … If [Collingwood's half-back players] can hold this brilliant footballer, then they'll be half-way to victory." [6]

He was listed as "Supplementary" on the club's Training List for 1956;[7] and he played for the Second XVII in the first three rounds of 1956.[8] Having been the best North Melbourne player in the Second XVII team's loss to Essendon—Essendon 12.25 (97), North Melbourne 9.5 (59) -- in Round 3,[9] he played his first senior match for North Melbourne in Round 4, on Saturday, 5 May 1956, against Carlton, on the half-back flank,[10] at Princes Park.[11] In his ninth senior match (Round 12, 7 July 1956), he was selected as 20th man against St Kilda at the Junction Oval. He came on after half-time, and was almost immediately involved in a tussle with St Kilda's Jack McDonald. McDonald was reported for punching Macquire, and was subsequently suspended for four weeks.[12] In the Round 16 match, against Fitzroy, played at Arden Street, on Saturday, 4 August 1956, Macquire broke a bone in his hand, and was not able to play until the next season.[13]

On 21 September 1957, in front of more than 100,000 spectators at the M.C.G.,[14] he played on the half-forward flank for the North Melbourne Second XVIII team that defeated Fitzroy and won the VFL Seconds' Premiership by four points: North Melbourne 14.13 (97); Fitzroy 13.15 (93). He kicked three goals, and was one of the best on the ground.[15]

At the beginning of the 1960 season, North Melbourne removed Macquire from its training list on the grounds that he had retired.[16]

Notes

  1. ↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 539. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. ↑ Death Notice: Macquire (nee Jenkins), The Argus, (Friday, 13 July 1945), p.2;Death Notice: Macquire (nee Jenkins), The Age, (Friday, 13 July 1945), p.6.
  3. ↑ Moses, K., "Recruits, Liniment Move in at North", The Argus, (Tuesday, 1 March 1955), p.20; City Budget-Balancers Try the Markets . . and Zero Hour's 11 O'Clock, The Argus, (Saturday, 1 September 1951), p.20; Macquire Seafoods: End of an Era, Seafood News, Vol.7, No.9, (November 2009), p.3.
  4. ↑ VRC Announces New Fielders in Paddock Ring, The Argus, (Friday, 13 June 1947), p.9; Indemnity Sought in Bets Tax Case, The Argus, (Friday, 25 March 1955), p.9; Moon, T., "Bookies? I Like Them — Premier", The Argus, (Thursday, 16 August 1956), p.16.
  5. ↑ (State Library of Victoria Image H2010.104/2582).
  6. ↑ Bye, P., "North-West to Beat Magpies", The Sporting Globe, (Saturday, 7 August 1954), p.8.
  7. ↑ League Training Lists: North Melbourne, The Age, (Monday, 9 April 1956), p.18
  8. ↑ 'How we do it at North', The Argus, (Tuesday, 6 May 1956), p.17.
  9. ↑ League Seconds Details, The Age, (Monday, 30 April 1956), p.13.
  10. ↑ How Your Team Will Line Up, The Argus, (Friday, 4 May 1956), p.23.
  11. ↑ North Changes, The Age, (Friday, 4 May 1956), p.12.
  12. ↑ An uppercut ousts Saint for 4 weeks, The Argus, (Wednesday, 11 July 1956), p.22; St Kilda Man Out for Four Weeks, The Age, (Wednesday, 11 July 1956), p.16.
  13. ↑ Carroll May Not Play Again This Season, The Age, (Monday, 6 August 1956), p.18; It Wasn't a Good Shepherd — It Broke His Arm, The Argus, (Tuesday, 7 August 1956), p.15.
  14. ↑ The official attendance was 100,324.
  15. ↑ North Seconds Side Stronger, The Age, (Friday, 20 September 1957), p.30; Improved North for Seconds' Flag, The Age, (Saturday, 21 September 1957), p.16; Carter, R., "Game Last-Quarter Bid Lands Win for North", The Age, (Monday, 23 September 1957), p.16.
  16. ↑ League Training Lists: North Melbourne, The Age, (Monday, 11 April 1960), p.22.

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