Johnny Hay

Australian rules footballer

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

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]

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

^ Holmesby (2014), p.378.
^ 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.
^ Deaths: Hay, The Argus, (Wednesday, 11 April 1928), p.1; Presbyterian Minister's Death, The Herald, Monday, 9 April 1928), p.1.
^ Deaths: Hay, The Age, (Thursday, 9 September 1926), p.1.
^ GS (2010).
^ Sporting News, The Ballarat Star, (Thursday, 19 April 1906), p.4.

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.