Dean Hartigan

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Dean Hartigan
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Full name Dean Hartigan
Date of birth (1954-08-23) 23 August 1954 (age 65)
Original team(s) Horsham
Height 180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 73 kg (161 lb)
Position(s) Back pocket
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
1974–1977 Essendon 36 (1)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1977.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Dean Hartigan (born 23 August 1954) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Australian rules football Contact sport invented in Melbourne

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, or simply called Aussie rules, football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of eighteen players on an oval-shaped field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by kicking the oval-shaped ball between goal posts or between goal and behind posts.

Essendon Football Club Australian rules football club

The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed the Bombers, is a professional Australian rules football club that plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition. Thought to have formed in 1872, the club played its first recorded game on 7 June 1873 against a Carlton Second 20, winning 1 goal to nil. The club played a senior club in the Victorian Football Association in 1878, one year after the VFA formed. It is historically associated with Essendon, a suburb in the north-west of Melbourne, Victoria. Since 2013, the club has been headquartered at The Hangar, Melbourne Airport, and plays its home games at either Docklands Stadium or the Melbourne Cricket Ground; throughout most of its history the club's home ground and headquarters was Windy Hill, Essendon, where it played from 1922 until 1991. While it stopped playing games at the ground thereafter, Windy Hill remained its training and administration base until the end of 2013. Dyson Heppell is the current team captain.

Australian Football League Australian rules football competition

The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent and only fully professional men's competition of Australian rules football. Through the AFL Commission, the AFL also serves as the sport's governing body, and is responsible for controlling the laws of the game. Originally known as the Victorian Football League (VFL), it was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition from the Victorian Football Association (VFA), with its inaugural season commencing the following year. The VFL, with the aim of becoming a national competition, began expanding beyond Victoria to other Australian states in the 1980s, and in 1990 changed its name to the AFL.

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Biography

Essendon career

Hartigan, a recruit from Horsham, started out in the Essendon Under 19s, which he joined in 1972. [1] He got called up to the seniors for the first time in the 1974 VFL season. [2] Aged 19, Hartigan was one of three Essendon players to debut against St Kilda in round 15, most famous of the trio being Simon Madden. [3] He did not miss a game for the rest of the year in an encouraging start to his career and continued his sequence by playing in the first 10 rounds of the 1975 season. [2] [4] In round 14, an 80-point loss to Carlton at Windy Hill, Hartigan was knocked unconscious by Phillip Pinnell during a second quarter brawl in which eight players were put on report. [5] [6] A back pocket player, Hartigan finished the 1975 season with 15 games. [2] He played much of 1976 in the Essendon reserves and won the club's best and fairest award, but still put together 10 senior games. [2] In 1977, his final season, Hartigan played just three league games. [2]

Horsham Football Club

The Horsham Football & Netball Club, nicknamed the Demons, is an Australian rules football and netball club based in the city of Horsham, Victoria. The football team competes in the Wimmera Football League (WFL).

The 1974 Victorian Football League season was the 78th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.

St Kilda Football Club Australian rules football club

The St Kilda Football Club, nicknamed the Saints, is an Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The club plays in the Australian Football League, the sport's premier league.

Later career

From 1978 to 1981, Hartigan played for Coburg in the Victorian Football Association (VFA). [1] He was a back pocket in Coburg's 1979 premiership winning team. [7] In 1980 he was a VFA representative and played in the Coburg side which lost to Port Melbourne the grand final. [1] [8]

Coburg Football Club

The Coburg Football Club, nicknamed The Lions, is an Australian rules football club based in Coburg, a northern suburb of Melbourne, and currently playing in the Victorian Football League. It is based at Coburg City Oval which has been renamed to Piranha Park, due to naming rights. Coburg has historically been a proud club and has won 6 VFA/VFL premierships with the most recent premiership in 1989. The club spent time aligned as a reserve side for the Richmond Football Club from 2001, but as of 2014 has become a stand-alone club in the Victorian Football League.

Victorian Football League state-level Australian rules football league in Victoria, Australia

The Victorian Football League (VFL) is the major state-level Australian rules football league in Victoria. The league evolved from the former Victorian Football Association (VFA), and has been known by its current name since 1996. For historical purposes, the present VFL is sometimes referred to as the VFA/VFL, to distinguish it from the present day Australian Football League, which was known until 1990 as the Victorian Football League and is sometimes referred to as the VFL/AFL.

The 1979 Victorian Football Association season was the 98th season of the top division of the Australian rules football competition, and the 19th season of second division competition. The Division 1 premiership was won by the Coburg Football Club, after it defeated Geelong West in the Grand Final on 23 September by eight points; it was Coburg's fourth Division 1 premiership, and its first since 1928, ending a 51-year Division 1 premiership drought. The Division 2 premiership was won by Camberwell; it was the first premiership in either division ever won by the club since its admission to the Association in 1926, 53 years earlier.

He left Coburg in 1982 to captain-coach Seddon, then from 1983 to 1987 captain-coached Aberfeldie. [1]

Aberfeldie Football Club

Aberfeldie Sports Club is an Australian rules football and cricket club located 9 km north-west of Melbourne in the suburb of Aberfeldie which entered the Essendon District Football League in 1948.

Family

Hartigan was not the first member of his family to play VFL football. [9] His father, Jack Hartigan, played for Hawthorn and St Kilda in the 1950s. [10]

Hawthorn Football Club Australian rules football club

The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club, founded in 1902, is the youngest of the Victorian-based teams in the AFL and has won thirteen VFL/AFL premierships. It is renowned as the only club having won premierships in each decade of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s. The team play in brown and gold vertically striped guernseys. The club's Latin motto is spectemur agendo, the English translation being "Let us be judged by our acts".

Brent Hartigan, his son, played for Richmond from 2004 to 2006. [10]

Brent Hartigan is an Australian rules football player, formerly of the Richmond Football Club in the AFL. He is the son of Dean Hartigan who played for Essendon.

Richmond Football Club Australian rules football club

The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed the Tigers, is a professional Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition. Between its inception in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond in 1885 and 1907, the club competed in the Victorian Football Association (VFA), winning two premierships. Richmond joined the Victorian Football League in 1908 and has since won twelve premierships, most recently in 2019.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Past Player Profiles – H". essendonfc.com.au. Archived from the original on 6 July 2015. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "AFL Tables – Dean Hartigan – Games Played". AFL Tables. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  3. ↑ Murray, John (2009). Glory and Fame: The Rise and Rise of the Essendon Football Club. Slattery Media Group. p. 48. ISBN   978-0-9805162-9-6.
  4. ↑ Sheahan, Mike (5 August 1974). "Richmond roars to the top". The Age . p. 26. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  5. ↑ Barker, Geoff (7 July 1975). "For game, read shame". The Age . p. 20. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  6. ↑ Anderson, Jon (6 July 2007). "Fields admits starting blue". Herald Sun . Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  7. ↑ Fiddian, Marc (2013). The VFA – A History of the Victorian Football Association 1877 – 1995. Melbourne Sports Books. p. 282.
  8. ↑ Fiddian, Marc (22 September 1980). "Port snatches flag in Lion taming finale". The Age . p. 27. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  9. ↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia Of AFL Footballers. BAS Publishing. ISBN   9781920910785.
  10. 1 2 Hillier, K. (2004). Like Father Like Son. Pennon Publishing, Melbourne. p. 209. ISBN   1-877029-73-4.
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