John Francis Murray (born 15 July 1913, date of death unknown) 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 in the West Australian National Football League (WANFL). Murray played 170 games from 1935 to 1940 and from 1945 to 1949, as either a ruckman or a defender, for the

Swan Districts Football Club The Swan Districts Football Club, nicknamed the Swans, is an Australian rules football club playing in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and WAFL Women's (WAFLW). The club is based at Bassendean Oval, in Bassendean, Western Australia, ...

. "Had his career not been shortened by the war, he would almost certainly have been the Swans’ first ever 200 game footballer."
AustralianFootball.com Retrieved 2015-06-25. He made his interstate debut at the 1937 Perth carnival. against South Australia. In the period prior to World War Two, he played in 8 of Western Australia’s 9 matches, and after the war made a 9th appearance. Murray won the fairest and best award at Swan Districts Football Club in 1939 and 1947 and was selected in the Swan Districts Team of the Century in the

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* 1913 births Year of death missing Swan Districts Football Club players Australian rules footballers from Western Australia {{AFL-bio-1913-stub