Max McMahon (born 20 March 1942) is a former
Australian rules footballer who played with
Hawthorn in the
Victorian Football League
The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). I ...
(VFL) during the early 1960s.
After being chased initially by Carlton, McMahon joined Hawthorn in 1961. A centre half back, he came from Traralgon and made his VFL debut in a win over North Melbourne at Arden Street in round four. Hawthorn went on to win their first ever premiership later in the year but McMahon made no further appearances that season. He appeared for Hawthorn four times in 1962 and spent the rest of his time in the reserves.
McMahon spent the rest of the decades in Tasmania, where he had a productive career. Apart from playing with
Glenorchy, whom he won a 'Best and Fairest with in 1965, McMahon appeared for both the league and state in representative football. He was a Tasmanian representative at the
1966 Hobart and
1969 Adelaide Carnival
The 1969 Adelaide Carnival was the 17th edition of the Australian National Football Carnival, an Australian rules football interstate competition.
Four teams competed in the carnival, South Australia, the Victorian Football League, Tasmania and ...
. The defender also won a Lefroy Medal in 1965, the same year he was a member of Glenorchy's
TANFL premiership team. He spent the 1966 season in the
NWFU with
Burnie
Burnie is a port city on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia. When founded in 1827, it was named Emu Bay, being renamed after William Burnie, a director of the Van Diemen's Land Company, in the early 1840s.
, Burnie had an urban pop ...
and participated in another premiership. He is on the interchange bench in Glenorchy's official Team of the Century.
References
1942 births
Hawthorn Football Club players
Glenorchy Football Club players
Burnie Football Club players
Traralgon Football Club players
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Living people
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