Career: 1959 - 1960
Debut: Round 13, 1959 vs Footscray, aged 22 years, 250 days
Carlton Player No. 727
Games: 10
Goals: 3
Last Game: Round 13, 1960 vs Fitzroy, aged 23 years, 249 days
Guernsey No. 39 (1959 - 1960).
Height: 180cm
Weight: 73 kg
DOB: November 17, 1936
Wearing guernsey #39, O'Keefe played 10 games and kicked 3 goals for the Blues after debuting in Season 1959. He was recruited from Mildura Imperials.
In 1961 John O'Keefe transferred to Preston where he played just six games in his first season. Preston were very much at a rebuilding stage, and remarkably, O'Keefe was made captain in 1962 with first-year player Peter Hayes, who managed two games in three years at Collingwood as vice-captian. O'Keefe retired the following year.