John Brophy (golfer)
John Brophy may refer to: * John Brophy (ice hockey) (1933–2016), Canadian hockey coach and player * John Brophy (labor) (1883–1963), United Mine Workers and CIO leader * John Brophy (writer) (1899–1965), Anglo-Irish soldier and novelist who wrote ''The Day They Robbed the Bank of England'', ''The World Went Mad'' * John C. Brophy John Charles Brophy (October 8, 1901December 26, 1976) was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin."John C. Brophy" in Wisconsin Blue Book 1948', p. 23. Brophy was born in Eagle, Wisconsin. He graduated from St. Patrick's School in Milwaukee and at ...

John Brophy (ice Hockey)
John Duncan Brophy (January 20, 1933 – May 23, 2016) was a Canadian ice hockey coach and hockey player who spent most of his career in minor professional leagues, including 18 years as a player in the Eastern Hockey League and 13 seasons as a coach in the East Coast Hockey League. From 1986 to 1988 the native of Antigonish was head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League. Playing career Brophy was a tough defenceman who played 18 seasons in the Eastern Hockey League, racking up nearly 4,000 career penalty minutes between 1955 and 1973—the most in EHL history playing parts of nine seasons with the Long Island Ducks and retiring at the age of 40. On August 5, 1967, Brophy was involved in a car crash. He survived but his passenger, Dorothea Schiavone, was killed. He had a part as a referee in a Schaefer Beer commercial which aired for about five years on various New York television stations. Early coaching career Brophy had briefly been player-coac ...
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John Brophy (labor)
John Brophy (1883–1963) was an important figure in the United Mine Workers of America (UWMA) in the 1920s and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the 1930s and 1940s. He was the last major challenger to John L. Lewis' power within the UMWA and, after Lewis hired him back, a key leader within the CIO. The Mine Workers Brophy was born in Lancashire, England to a family of miners. His family emigrated to the United States when he was nine years old and found work in the central Pennsylvania coal mines. Brophy began working in the mines at age eleven; by the age of fourteen, he had joined the UMWA. He rose within the union to become president of District 2 of the UMWA. Brophy ran against Lewis for President of the UMWA in 1926 on a "Save the Union" slate, calling for nationalization of the coal industry. He probably would have won the election if the vote had been held democratically. Lewis drove Brophy and his supporters from the union after his victory in 1926. ...
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John Brophy (writer)
John Brophy (6 December 1899 – 13 November 1965) was an Anglo-Irish soldier, journalist and author who wrote more than 40 books, mostly based on his experiences during World War I. Brophy was born in Liverpool in Lancashire in 1899 of Irish descent, the son of John Brophy, an earthenware dealer, and his wife Agnes, ''née'' Bodell."Brophy, John (1899–1965)"
Leonard R. N. Ashley,

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

, Oxford University Press, 2004. Retrieved 26 April 2017 He lied about his age to join the during Wor ...
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