Joe McShane

Joe McShane (29 November 1868 – 26 July 1950) was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

For the President of Fordham University, New York, see Joseph M. McShane.
Joe McShane
An illustration of McShane from 1890
Personal information
Full name Joseph Francis McShane
Date of birth 29 November 1868
Place of birth Geelong
Date of death 26 July 1950(1950-07-26) (aged 81)
Place of death Kew, Victoria
Height 183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 80 kg (176 lb)
Position(s) Ruckman
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1887–1896 Geelong (VFA) 135 (43)
1897–1901 Geelong 075 (30)
1902–1904 Carlton 048 (17)
Total 258 (90)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1904.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

McShane started his career at Geelong in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) in 1887, playing 210 matches for the club across the VFA and the VFL before moving to Carlton in 1902. He was the first Geelong player to reach 200 games. In 1899, he was the first player to kick 10 or more goals in a game, scoring 11 against St Kilda, whose 1-point total in the same match become the still-standing record for the lowest-scoring result by a team in VFL/AFL history.[1]

At the end of the 1899 season, in the process of naming his own "champion player", the football correspondent for The Argus ("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 — he selected Pat Hickey as his "champion player" of the season. ('Old Boy', "Football: A Review of the Season", (Monday, 18 September 1899), p.6).

He retired following the 1904 Grand Final against Fitzroy.[2]

References
  1. "AFL/VFL Records". afl.com.au. Retrieved 1 October 2021.
  2. Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2002). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (4th ed.). Melbourne, Victoria: Crown Content. p. 441. ISBN 1-74095-001-1.
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