Australian rules footballer
Australian rules footballer
John Stephenson |
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Full name |
John Francis Stephenson |
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Date of birth |
(1937-05-14)14 May 1937 |
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Date of death |
14 October 2014(2014-10-14) (aged 77) |
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Place of death |
Chelsea, Victoria |
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Original team(s) |
Benalla |
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Height |
184 cm (6 ft 0 in) |
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Weight |
85.5 kg (188 lb) |
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Years |
Club |
Games (Goals) |
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1958 |
Carlton |
1 (0) |
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1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1958. |
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com |
John Stephenson (14 May 1937 – 14 October 2014) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]
The son of Jack Stephenson, who also played for Carlton, he was recruited from Benalla, but played only a single league game (in 1958).[2]
In 1989 he was a passenger on United Airlines Flight 811 from Los Angeles to Sydney via Honolulu and Auckland the Boeing 747 Jumbo cargo door failed mid flight and blown 9 people out, Stephenson was seated 11 rows behind where the fuselage was breached.[3] In October 2014, Stephenson was killed when the Van's RV-6 light aircraft he was piloting crashed into a house in the Melbourne suburb of Chelsea.[4]
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