John Sharrock
John Sharrock is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the VFL during the 1960s.
Football
Sharrock played most of his career as a half forward flanker and was a premiership player in 1963, his first season at Geelong. On 6 July 1963 he was a member of the Geelong team that were comprehensively and unexpectedly beaten VFL season#Round 10|by Fitzroy, 9.13 (67) to 3.13 (31)] in the 1963 Miracle Match.Due to an injury to Roy West, he spent the first half of 1966 playing at fullback before moving to centre-half forward for the second half of the season. He had his best season, finishing third in the Brownlow Medal count.
In 1968 he suffered a career ending knee injury during an Inter-League game and despite having represented Victoria at interstate football earlier in the season it would be his last year in the game.