John Augustine "Jerry" McAuliffe (27 August 1909 – 4 May 1959) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Family

John Augustine McAuliffe was born at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia on 27 August 1909.

He married Ethel Dorothea Edna Dempsey (1909–1968) at St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne on 8 January 1938.Weddings: McAuliffe—Dempsey, The Murrumbidgee Irrigator, (Friday, 28 January 1938), p.6.Deaths: McAuliffe, The Sydney Morning Herald, (Wednesday, 2 October 1968), p. 54.

Football University Blacks (MAFA/VAFA) In between 1928 and 1933 he played for the University Blacks in the Metropolitan Amateur Football Association (MAFA), later known as the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA), and also a number of times for Melbourne University in its interstate matches with Adelaide University.Inter-Varsity Match, The Age, (Friday, 8 August 1930), p. 6. He was awarded a full blue for football in April 1929.Certificate for University Blues, The (Melbourne) Herald, (Saturday, 6 April 1929), p. 3.

Hawthorn (VFL) He was cleared to Hawthorn from University Blacks on 16 May 1934.Many Permits Granted by League Committee, The Argus, (Thursday, 17 May 1934), p. 11.

Leeton McAuliffe coached Leeton Football Club to the 1935 premiership of the Kinloch Cup Competition.

Dentist He graduated Bachelor of Dental Science (B.D.Sc.) from the University of Melbourne on 18 September 1933;The University: Conferring of Degrees: Bachelor of Dental Science, The Age, (Tuesday, 19 September 1933), p. 14. and, upon arriving at Leeton, New South Wales, in 1935, "J.A. McAuliffe, L.D.S, B.D.Sc."Licentiate in Dental Surgery. began to practise as a dentist at Wade Avenue Leeton.Public Notice, The Murrumbidgee Irrigator, (Friday, 1 March 1935), p. 2.His name appears in the Register of Dentists of the State of New South Wales for 1935, issued by the NSW Department of Public Health, on 8 February 1935, page 559 at "32 Collins-street, Melbourne"; and, then, at "Wade-avenue, Leeton", in the Register of Dentists of the State of New South Wales for 1936, issued by the NSW Department of Public Health, on 10 February 1936, at page 763.

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