Jack Hiskins (12 February 1911 – 16 March 1973) was an

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

er who played with

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in the

Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition. It includes teams from clubs based in east ...

(VFL).

Career

A half-back, Hiskins started his career in the

Ovens & Murray Football League The Ovens and Murray Football Netball League (OMFNL or O&MFNL) is an Australian rules football and netball competition containing ten clubs based in north-eastern Victoria, Australia, Victoria, the southern Riverina region of New South Wales ...

, with

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in 1930. (archived) He joined Essendon in the

1934 VFL season The 1934 VFL season was the 38th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs and ran from 5 May to 13 October, comprising an 18-matc ...

and made 13 appearances that year. After playing for Essendon in the opening three rounds of the 1935 season, Hiskins returned to Rutherglen. Hiskins was coach of their 1935 premiership team, which defeated Border United in the grand final He steered them to another grand final in 1936, but this time they finished on the losing team, unable to defeat

Wangaratta Wangaratta ( ) is a city in the northeast of Victoria, Australia, from Melbourne along the Hume Highway. The city had a population of 29,808 per the 2021 Australian Census. The city is located at the confluence, junction of the Ovens River, ...

Family

Fred Hiskins John Frederick Hiskins (8 August 1878 – 25 November 1946) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the early 1900s. Hiskins came from a family of 16 and hailed from Lake Mooderme ...

, Jack's father, was a half forward for Essendon and won the VFL Leading Goal-kicker award in 1901. His father was one of four brothers who played league football, with the others being

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, Rupe and Stan.

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1911 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Essendon Football Club players Rutherglen Football Club players Rutherglen Football Club coaches 1973 deaths 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1911-stub