Jack Mueller

Jack Mueller
Personal information
Date of birth	9 September 1915
Date of death	14 June 2001(2001-06-14) (aged 85)
Original team(s)	Echuca (Bendigo FL)
Height / weight	188 cm, 89 kg
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1934–1950[1]	Melbourne	216 (378)
Representative team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
1936–1941	Victoria	4 (4)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1950.
Career highlights
4× VFL premierships: 1939, 1940, 1941, 1948 3× Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Medallist: 1937, 1939, 1946 2× Melbourne leading goalkicker: 1934, 1946 Melbourne Team of the Century–Forward-pocket Australian Football Hall of Fame Melbourne Hall of Fame

Jack Mueller (9 September 1915 – 14 June 2001) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He was famous for having only eight fingers, after losing two when he caught his hand in a machine at work.^[2]

In the late 1940s and 1950s, Mueller was a football commentator on 3KZ, working first with Norman Banks and later Philip Gibbs. Mueller also worked with Gibbs on the program Football Inquest, which was later simulcast on 3KZ and GTV-9.

References

• Ross, John (1999). The Australian Football Hall of Fame. Australia: HarperCollinsPublishers. p. 103. ISBN 0-7322-6426-X. 
• AFL site: Australian Football Hall of Fame
• Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers (7th edition). Australia: Bas Publishing. p. 884. ISBN 978-1-920910-78-5. 

External links

• Jack Mueller's statistics from AFL Tables