Johnny Hay

John McKenzie Hay (21 April 1886 – 22 September 1958) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Johnny Hay
Personal information
Full name John McKenzie Hay
Date of birth (1886-04-21)21 April 1886
Place of birth Rokewood, Victoria
Date of death 22 September 1958(1958-09-22) (aged 72)
Place of death Paddington, New South Wales
Original team(s) Scotch College
Height 179 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 81 kg (179 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1906–07 Collingwood 19 (2)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1907.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Family

The son of Presbyterian cleric George Hay (1843-1928),[2][3] and Elizabeth McKelvie Hay (1847-1926), née McKenzie,[4] John McKenzie Hay was born in Rokewood, Victoria on 21 April 1886.

His older brother, Robert Hay (1880–1959), played with Fitzroy in the VFL.[5]

He married Daisy Wiliams in 1908.

Football

He was cleared from the Ballarat Football Club to play with Collingwood in 1906.[6]

Notes
  1. Holmesby (2014), p.378.
  2. George Hay, M.A., was inducted as the pastor of the Rokewood Presbyterian Church on 7 December 1880: see Presbytery of Ballarat, The Ballarat Star, (Thursday, 2 December 1880), p.3.
  3. Deaths: Hay, The Argus, (Wednesday, 11 April 1928), p.1; Presbyterian Minister's Death, The Herald, Monday, 9 April 1928), p.1.
  4. Deaths: Hay, The Age, (Thursday, 9 September 1926), p.1.
  5. GS (2010).
  6. Sporting News, The Ballarat Star, (Thursday, 19 April 1906), p.4.
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References
  • (GS): Scotch's first 66 VFL/AFL Players, Great Scot, (September 2010), Scotch College, Melbourne.
  • Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
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