- Dan Moriarty (Australian rules footballer born 1875)
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Dan Moriarty Personal information Full name Daniel Moriarty Date of birth 18 August 1875 Date of death September 1903 (aged 28) Place of death Jolimont Original team Fitzroy Juniors Playing career1 Years Club Games (Goals) 1897
1899–1903
TotalFitzroy
Melbourne12 (2)
62 (2)
74 (4)1 Playing statistics to end of 1903 season .Daniel "Dan" Moriarty (18 August 1875 – September 1903) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy and Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Moriarty was killed by a freight train near Jolimont railway station in September 1903. Authorities determined from the position of the body that he had committed suicide.[1]
Sources
- ^ "Advertisements". Bay of Plaenty Times. 25 September 1903. http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=BOPT19030925.2.12.3. Retrieved 31 January 2011.
- Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2009). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 8th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
External links
Categories:- Australian rules footballers from Victoria
- Fitzroy Football Club players
- Melbourne Football Club players
- 1875 births
- 1903 deaths
- Suicides in Victoria (Australia)
- Sportspeople who committed suicide
- Suicides by jumping in front of a train
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