Jack Clancy

John Dalton "Jack" Clancy (13 July 1934 – 23 March 2014) was an Australian rules footballer, playing for Fitzroy Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Born in Melbourne, Clancy attended Christian Brothers' College, St Kilda and then the University of Melbourne and, as a 191 cm ruckman, played for University Blacks in the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA), until recruited by Fitzroy for the 1957 VFL season.

Clancy made his senior debut for Fitzroy in Round One that year as 20th man against reigning premiers, Melbourne, spending the whole game on the bench and was dropped back to the reserves. Years later, at a lunch to make his 50th year with the Blacks, then Fitzroy coach Bill Stephen said he never saw a man sitting on the bench as impressively as Clancy. and in 1958 Clancy returned to the University Blacks,

Clancy died after a long illness in Melbourne on 23 March 2014.