Joseph Francis McShane (29 November 1868 – 26 July 1950) was an

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

er who played for the

Geelong Football Club The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed the Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club based at Kardinia Park in South Geelong, Victoria, Australia. The club competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier comp ...

and the

Carlton Football Club The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Australian rules football club based at Princes Park (stadium), Princes Park in Carlton North, Victoria, Carlton North, an inner suburb of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. The c ...

between 1887 and 1904.

Family

The son of Philip McShane (1835-1908), and Mary Ann McShane (1836-1912), née McCabe, Joseph Francis McShane was born at

Geelong Geelong ( ) (Wathawurrung language, Wathawurrung: ''Djilang''/''Djalang'') is a port city in Victoria, Australia, located at the eastern end of Corio Bay (the smaller western portion of Port Phillip Bay) and the left bank of Barwon River (Victo ...

on 29 November 1868. He married Joanna Ryan (1862-1932), at Melbourne, on 5 July 1882.

Football

Geelong (VFA/VFL)

One of the six McShane brothers who played in the VFA or VFL (or both) for Geelong, McShane started his career at Geelong in the

Victorian Football Association The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition. It includes teams from clubs based in east ...

(VFA) in 1887, and played 210 games for the club (135 in the VFA and 75 in the VFL), becoming the first Geelong player to play 200 games for the club before moving to Carlton in 1902.

1899

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(Geelong),

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(South Melbourne) ::Ruck:

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(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 — he selected Pat Hickey as his "champion player" of the season.

Carlton (VFL)

McShane retired following the 1904 Grand Final against Fitzroy: at the time, his career total of 258 games was second in elite Victorian football behind his longtime Geelong teammate Peter Burns (305 games, 216 in the VFA and 89 in the VFL), and third in elite Australian rules football behind Burns and the South Australian Jack "Dinny" Reedman (281 games, would retire at the end of 1909 with 319 games).

Death

He died at the Caritas Christi Hospice, in

Kew, Victoria Kew () is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, found 5 km east from Melbourne's Melbourne central business district, Central Business District. Kew is located within the City of Boroondara Local government areas of ...

on 26 July 1950.Funeral Notices: McShane, ''The Age'', (Thursday, 27 July 1950), p.8.
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Notes

References

* Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2002), ''The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (4th ed.)'', Melbourne, Victoria: Crown Content.
Football Memories: Joe McShane's Experiences: Ruck-Man and Captain, ''The Geelong Advertiser'', (Saturday, 30 August 1924), p.4.

'M. M. McC.', "The Famous Six McShane Bothers", ''The Sporting Globe'', (Saturday, 3 October 1936), p.8.

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