Playing Career
Vital Statistics
- Full Name
- John Patrick Dougherty
- Nickname(s)
- Jack
- Born
- Saturday, 18th April, 1931
- Died
- Saturday, 27th September, 2025 (Aged 94 years and 162 days)
Honours & Awards
Based only on data available in the RLP database. This information should be used as a guide only.
- Interstate Series
- 1954, 1956
- City vs Country Firsts
- 1954
- NSWRFL Premiership (NRL)
- 1953, 1954, 1955
Biography
Souths’ pivot, a NSW rep during the mid 1950s, played in three premiership deciders with the club in 1953-55.
- ALAN WHITICKER
Playing Career Statistics
All statistics shown in this section are based only on data available in the RLP database, and are not necessarily a complete and/or 100% accurate representation of a player's career. This information should be used as a guide only. If you see a question mark (?), it denotes that the figure is not available.
To view a list of corresponding matches, click on the List button.
| Tour Matches | Riverina/Western XIII | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | |||
| Tour Matches | Sydney Firsts | - | 1 | 3 | - | - | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
| Tour Matches | New South Wales Firsts | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
| Representative Career - Australia | Comp Wins | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interstate Series | 2 | 6 | 3 | - | - | 9 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 83.33% | List | ||||
| City vs Country Firsts | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| Country Carnival | - | 4 | 1 | 2 | - | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 50.00% | List | ||||
| Club Career - Australia | Comp Wins | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) | 3 | 56 | 30 | 15 | - | 120 | 42 | 12 | 2 | 75.00% | List | ||||
| NSWRFL Finals | - | 9 | 4 | 4 | - | 20 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 88.89% | List | ||||
| Overall | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||||
| First Class | 66 | 36 | 15 | - | 138 | 58 | 15 | 2 | 87.88% | List | |||||
Australia - By Team | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Western Division | 1952 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
| Riverina/Western | 1952 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
| Sydney Firsts | 1954 | 1 | 3 | - | - | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| NSW Firsts | 1954, 1956 | 7 | 3 | - | - | 9 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 85.71% | List | ||||
| NSW City Firsts | 1954 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| Overall | 1952-1956 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 72.73% | List | ||||
NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) - By Year | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Season | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1953 | 11 | 7 | 13 | - | 47 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 81.82% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1954 | 15 | 12 | 2 | - | 40 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 80.00% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1955 | 17 | 4 | - | - | 12 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 76.47% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1956 | 13 | 7 | - | - | 21 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.54% | List | ||||
NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) - By Team | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| South Sydney | 1953-56 | 56 | 30 | 15 | - | 120 | 42 | 12 | 2 | 75.00% | List | ||||
Contributions:
Alan Katzmann, Paul Carter, Greg Fiveash, Rugby League Tables, Andrew Ferguson, Max Turner, Shawn Dollin, Tony McCarron, Tim Costello
Your Say
25 Jun 2015 9:00pm
I was a 9 year old when John and Ian Moir lived with my aunty and uncle in Kensington.John and Ian were my heros and sensational footballers
25 May 2020 11:05am
best player to never play for australia.
3 Sep 2021 11:06am
I was a classmate of John. He was the best 5/8 never to play for Australia.. He would play all over the Queensland opponent when injury prevented his selection.in the Australian Team On completing his University Degree he was sent to the country. ending his football career. He is 90 now.
8 Feb 2024 10:55am
93 this April. I don't know about 'ending his career', but that's where it started, in Warren, NSW......he wasn't there very long, as a teacher. Next thing we know his name appears in a South's team !
30 Dec 2025 1:23pm
Mr Dougherty was my school football coach at Jesmond HS in years 11 and 12. He was a great coach and people person. I have just found out that he passed away last September. I am sorry I never got to see him in his latter years. However he attended our school reunion in 1992, so we caught up then. My sympathies to John's family. What a gentleman!
Want to have your say? Add a comment.