Is Jock McIntyre Dennington Football Netball Club's oldest living player?
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His wife Fay reckons he is.
"I would think so, he's pretty old and I am too," she said with a laugh.
It's a question the club posed on its Facebook page recently and prompted people to think back to when the club reformed for the 1953 season.
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He was one of the inaugural players.
Jock recently celebrated his 96th birthday and pulled on a red and white Dennington jumper for a photo shoot.
These days Jock lives at Landsborough, Queensland.
His daughter Julie explained her father had been reminiscing about his playing days so the family asked if the club could send up a jumper.
It happily obliged and asked the family to send back photos.
According to the club's Facebook page, he played 68 games (1953-57) mainly at centre half-forward.
While Jock wasn't fit to speak, his wife Fay and daughter, Julie, were happy to reflect on his time at Dennington.
Fay and Jock will be married 72 years this October 29.
They have three children - Julie, Gerard and David.
Fay explained Jock built a house on Tylden Street, Dennington.
The mother-of-three, who is 90, spoke highly of the Bertrand family which were involved with Dennington football.
Jock became friends with Tom Bertrand - father of Val Bertrand who is a legendary Warrnambool sportswoman.
They were welcoming when the McIntyre's moved to the south-west in the early 1950s from Warracknabeal in the state's north-west.
Fay explained the family moved a lot with Jock's work.
"The Bertrands took us in," she said.
"They (the club) decided they were going to have a football team and the Bertrands knew Jock.
"Jock worked for the Shell company."
Fay said the Bertrands allowed she and Jock to stay with them when they were looking for a place to live and she was pregnant.
Fay also recalled the Bertrands taking Julie to school for the first time.
Both Fay and Julie talked about how Jock used to have to pick up the cow dung off the paddock so players could get on the park.
Fay, who worked as a machine operator at Nestles, was a loyal supporter during Jock's playing days and "always" went to watch him play.
She remembers having to get his clothes ready and travelling around the various football grounds.
"Just every weekend we'd be going to the football," she said.
Jock still loves his footy.
Fay said they were eager to watch their beloved Lions in action in their semi-final against the Western Bulldogs on Saturday night.
"He was always Collingwood but since we've been here in Queensland he has barracked for the Lions," she said.
After half-a-dozen years in the south-west, the McIntyres moved to Ballarat and then Portland until they retired up to Queensland.
Jock's Dennington days still get brought up at home because of a history book published about a decade ago - A History of the Dennington Football Netball Club 1909-2012.
According to a 2012 article in The Standard, Dennington fielded football teams on-and-off until 1928 and reformed in 1952.
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