Francis John Murphy (20 February 1905 – 25 May 1995)[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Murphy was a half-forward as a member of a successful Collingwood side played in four premierships, three of them with his brother Len.

After leaving the club in 1935, he moved to Western Australia, where he became captain-coach of Subiaco in the Western Australian Football League and the Kalgoorlie City Football Club in the Goldfields Football League.

[2] Murphy later served in the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II.

[3] This Australian rules football biography of a person born in 1905 is a stub.