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Key Facts

Full name
James Heenan Jnr

Known as
Jim Heenan

Born
19 May 1930

Died
29 October 1999 (aged 69)

Age at first & last AFL game
First game: 21y 336d
Last game: 27y 125d

Height and weight
Height: 173 cm
Weight: 76 kg

Senior clubs
Essendon

Jumper numbers
Essendon: 14

Family links
Jim Heenan Snr (Father)

Jim Heenan

Advanced stats
Club
League
Career span
Games
Goals
Avg
Win %
AKI
AHB
AMK
BV
EssendonV/AFL1952-19578260.0755%———15
Total1952-19578260.0755%———15

AFL: 6,178th player to appear, 2,992nd most games played, 6,000th most goals kickedEssendon: 643rd player to appear, 223rd most games played, 536th most goals kicked

Essendon’s Jim Heenan was a tough, resolute player who was mostly used as a permanent back pocket. He won the Bombers’ reserve grade best and fairest in 1951 and took his senior bows the following year. After a noteworthy debut season he received the club’s best first year player award but he failed thereafter to build on this and was in and out of the seniors over the remainder of his career. That career ended after the 1957 grand final in which Essendon lost to Melbourne and Heenan enjoyed a late run after being named as nineteenth man.

Jim Heenan played a total of 82 VFL games and kicked half a dozen goals. His father, also called Jim Heenan, played eight games for North Melbouirne in 1930.

Author - John Devaney

Sources

Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers by Russell Holmesby & Jim Main; Wikipedia article; Those Magnificent Men 1897-1987 by Michael Maplestone

Footnotes

* Behinds calculated from the 1965 season on.
+ Score at the end of extra time.