Eddie Drohan - Misplaced Pages

Australian rules footballer

Eddie Drohan
Drohan in 1906
Personal information
Full name	Edward Patrick Drohan
Date of birth	17 July 1876
Place of birth	Warrnambool, Victoria
Date of death	28 July 1938(1938-07-28) (aged 62)
Place of death	Cheltenham, Victoria
Original team(s)	Fitzroy Juniors
Position(s)	Wing
Playing career
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1898–1902	Fitzroy	075 0(5)
1903–1908	Collingwood	096 (54)
Total		171 (59)
Coaching career
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
1910	Melbourne	18 (4–14–0)
1911	St Kilda	18 (2–16–0)
Total		36 (6–30–0)
Playing statistics correct to the end of 1911.
Career highlights
3× VFL premiership player: 1898, 1899, 1903 Collingwood captain: 1908
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Edward Patrick Drohan (17 July 1876 – 28 July 1938) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Fitzroy Football Club and Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) before becoming an umpire and a coach.

Football

Fitzroy (VFL)

Drohan made his debut for Fitzroy in 1898 and played in their premiership side that year and the following season. In both Grand Finals he played on a wing, the position he occupied for most of his career.

1899 team of "champions"

At the end of the 1899 season, in the process of naming his own "champion player", the football correspondent for The Argus, Reginald Wilmot ("Old Boy"), selected a team of the best players of the 1899 VFL competition:

Backs: Maurie Collins (Essendon), Bill Proudfoot (Collingwood), Peter Burns (Geelong).
Halfbacks: Pat Hickey (Fitzroy), George Davidson (South Melbourne), Alf Wood (Melbourne).
Centres: Fred Leach (Collingwood), Firth McCallum (Geelong), Harry Wright (Essendon).
Wings: Charlie Pannam (Collingwood), Eddie Drohan (Fitzroy), Herb Howson (South Melbourne).
Forwards: Bill Jackson (Essendon), Eddy James (Geelong), Charlie Colgan (South Melbourne).
Ruck: Mick Pleass (South Melbourne), Frank Hailwood (Collingwood), Joe McShane (Geelong).
Rovers: Dick Condon (Collingwood), Bill McSpeerin (Fitzroy), Teddy Rankin (Geelong).

From those he considered to be the three best players — that is, Condon, Hickey, and Pleass — Wilmot selected Pat Hickey as his "champion player" of the season.

Collingwood (VFL)

Drohan crossed to Collingwood in 1903 and finished the season as a member of another premiership winning side, becoming the first person to play in a VFL/AFL premiership for two different sides.

Umpire and coach

After retiring in 1908 Drohan spent a couple of years as a field umpire before joining Melbourne as coach in 1910. He had little success, winning just four games for the season and in 1911 he was chosen to coach St Kilda. Again his side struggled, this time winning just two games. Later Drohan also acted as a goal umpire and a steward.

References

"Family Notices". The Argus. No. 28, 684. Melbourne, Australia. 29 July 1938. p. 8.
"Football Notes". The Australasian. Melbourne. 14 May 1898. p. 20. Retrieved 12 June 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
"Eddie Drohan". Collingwood Forever. Retrieved 1 September 2014.
'Old Boy', "Football: A Review of the Season", (Monday, 18 September 1899), p. 6.
^ Atkinson, p. 95.

Sources

Atkinson, G. (1982) Everything you ever wanted to know about Australian rules football but couldn't be bothered asking, The Five Mile Press: Melbourne. ISBN 0 86788 009 0.

External links

Eddie Drohan's playing statistics from AFL Tables
Eddie Drohan at AustralianFootball.com
Coaching record from AFL Tables

v t e Collingwood Football Club 1903 VFL premiers
Collingwood 4.7 (31) defeated Fitzroy 3.11 (29), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
Addison Angus Condon Drohan Dummett Fell Incoll Leach G. Lockwood T. Lockwood McCormack Monohan Pannam Pears Proudfoot Rowell Rush Tulloch (c)

v t e Captains of the Collingwood Football Club
VFL/AFL	1897: Strickland 1898–1899: Proudfoot 1900: Condon 1901: Proudfoot 1902–1904: Tulloch 1905: C. Pannam 1906: Dummett 1906–1908: Leach 1908: Drohan 1908–1909: Nash 1910–1911: Angus 1912–1913: McHale 1914–1916: Minogue 1917–1918: Wilson 1919: McCarthy 1920–1921: Lee 1922: Drummond 1923: Curtis 1924–1926: Tyson 1927–1934: Coventry 1935–1939: Collier 1940–1941: Regan 1942: Kyne 1943: Regan 1944: Fricker 1945: A. Pannam 1946–1949: Kyne 1950–1951: Hocking 1952–1955: Richards 1955–1956: Mann 1957: Twomey 1958–1959: Tuck 1960–1963: Weideman 1964–1965: Gabelich 1965: Henderson 1966–1969: Tuddenham 1970–1971: Waters 1971–1975: W. Richardson 1976: Tuddenham 1977: M. Richardson 1978: Thompson 1979–1980: R. Shaw 1981–1982: P. Moore 1983–1986: Williams 1987–1993: T. Shaw 1994–1998: Brown 1999–2007: Buckley 2008: Burns 2009–2013: Maxwell 2014–2022: Pendlebury 2023–: D. Moore
AFL Women's	2017–2020: Chiocci 2021–2022 (S7): Chiocci/Davey 2023–: Davey

Captains of the Collingwood Football Club

VFL/AFL

1897: Strickland
1898–1899: Proudfoot
1900: Condon
1901: Proudfoot
1902–1904: Tulloch
1905: C. Pannam
1906: Dummett
1906–1908: Leach
1908: Drohan
1908–1909: Nash
1910–1911: Angus
1912–1913: McHale
1914–1916: Minogue
1917–1918: Wilson
1919: McCarthy
1920–1921: Lee
1922: Drummond
1923: Curtis
1924–1926: Tyson
1927–1934: Coventry
1935–1939: Collier
1940–1941: Regan
1942: Kyne
1943: Regan
1944: Fricker
1945: A. Pannam
1946–1949: Kyne
1950–1951: Hocking
1952–1955: Richards
1955–1956: Mann
1957: Twomey
1958–1959: Tuck
1960–1963: Weideman
1964–1965: Gabelich
1965: Henderson
1966–1969: Tuddenham
1970–1971: Waters
1971–1975: W. Richardson
1976: Tuddenham
1977: M. Richardson
1978: Thompson
1979–1980: R. Shaw
1981–1982: P. Moore
1983–1986: Williams
1987–1993: T. Shaw
1994–1998: Brown
1999–2007: Buckley
2008: Burns
2009–2013: Maxwell
2014–2022: Pendlebury
2023–: D. Moore

AFL Women's

2017–2020: Chiocci
2021–2022 (S7): Chiocci/Davey
2023–: Davey

v t e Coaches of the Melbourne Football Club
VFL/AFL	1907–1909: Hall 1910: Drohan 1911–1913: Hall 1914: Incigneri 1915: McKenzie 1919: Heinz 1920: Brosnan 1921–1923: Wilson 1924: Rattray 1925–1927: Chadwick 1928–1932: Warne-Smith 1933–1941: Hughes 1942–1944: Beames 1945–1948: Hughes 1949–1951: La Fontaine 1952–1965: Smith 1965: Hughes 1965–1967: Smith 1968–1970: Beckwith 1971–1973: Ridley 1974–1977: Skilton 1978: Jones 1979–1980: Ditterich 1981–1985: Barassi 1986–1992: Northey 1993–1997: Balme 1997: Hutchison 1998–2007: Daniher 2007: Riley 2008–2011: Bailey 2011: Viney 2012–2013: Neeld 2013: Craig 2014–2016: Roos 2017–: Goodwin
AFL Women's	2017–: Stinear
Italics denote caretaker coach

v t e Coaches of the St Kilda Football Club
VFL/AFL	1906: Hall 1908: Grace 1909: J. Smith 1911: Drohan 1913: Sparrow 1914: McNamara 1915; 1918:* J. Smith 1919: Eicke 1920: Sparrow 1920–1921: Ricketts 1922–1923: McNamara 1924: Eicke 1925–1926: Clark 1927: Heinz 1928–1929: Sparrow 1930: Cubbins 1931–1932: Hardy 1932: King 1933: Deane 1934: C. Watson 1935–1937: Minogue 1938–1940: Clarke 1941: Knight 1942–1943: Garvin 1944–1945: H. Thomas 1946–1947: Hird 1948–1950: Froude 1951: Green 1952–1953: Williamson 1954–1955: Foote 1956–1958: Killigrew 1959–1960: Francis 1961–1976: Jeans 1972, 1974: Guy 1977: R. Smith 1978–1980: M. Patterson 1980–1982: Jesaulenko 1983–1984: Jewell 1984–1986: Gellie 1987–1989: Baldock 1987: Davis 1990–1993: Sheldon 1994–1998: Alves 1999–2000: T. Watson 2001: Blight 2001–2006: G. Thomas 2007–2011: Lyon 2012–2013: Watters 2014–2019: Richardson 2019–2022: Ratten 2023–: Lyon
AFL Women's	2020–2021: Searle 2022 (S6)–: Dal Santo
St Kilda did not participate in the VFL from 1916–1917 due to World War I Italics* denote caretaker coach

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