Paddy Shea

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Paddy Shea
Paddy Shea 1910.jpg
Cigarette card of Shea in 2010
Personal information
Full name Patrick Augustus Shea
Date of birth 16 March 1886
Place of birth Clunes, Victoria
Date of death 29 May 1954(1954-05-29) (aged 68)
Place of death Northbridge, Sydney
Original team(s) CBC Parade, East Melbourne
Debut Round 2, 1904, Fitzroy  vs. St Kilda, at Brunswick Street
Height 175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 76 kg (168 lb)
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
1904 Fitzroy (VFL) 013 00(8)
1905-1907 Boulder City (GFL)
1908–15, 1918 Essendon (VFL) 142 (156)
1919 Essendon A (VFA) 9 (7)
Total164 (171)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1918.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Patrick Augustus Shea (16 March 1886 – 29 May 1954) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Fitzroy and Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL), and also a first-class cricketer with Victoria.

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Family

He was from a talented sporting family, with his brother Mark Francis Shea (1883–1939) also having a career at Fitzroy and Essendon.

His nephew, John Shea (1913–1986), played cricket with the Western Australia cricket team.

Football

He played mostly as a half forward flanker and was one of the first players to use the 'banana kick' as well as the 'checkside' punt

"Paddy was an accomplished drop, punt and place kick and he was the only forward I knew (and still know [viz., in 1954]) who could make a ball swerve in the air from his boot as a bowler can from his hand.
He could stand near a boundary post and swing it with certaintv between the goal posts.
That master football tactician Jack Worrall, who coached Essendon after he left Carlton, had to see Paddy at practice before he was convinced of his ability.
Worrall had never before seen it in his many years association with the game as player and coach." – George Hale, in The Sporting Globe, 5 June 1954. [1]

Fitzroy VFL)

Shea's VFL career began at Fitzroy in 1904.

Boulder City (GFA)

After one season he joined Goldfields Football Association club Boulder City, in Western Australia. He spent three years with Boulder City before returning to Victoria and making his Essendon debut in 1908.

Essendon (VFL)

This goal sense saw him top Essendon's goalkicking in 1909 with 40 majors. Such was his consistency up forward that he kicked a goal in each of his 17 games in the 1911 season but finished the year with just 25 goals. He was a member of Essendon premiership sides in 1911 and 1912. A Victorian interstate representative [2]

He holds the record for most VFL goals kicked at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground, with 85.

Essendon Association (VFA)

Shea coached Essendon Association when it re-entered the post-war VFA competition in 1919. [3]

Cricket

As a cricketer Shea was a left-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler.

He made three first-class appearances, his debut coming against Tasmania at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1912–13. Although Shea made little impact in the match, his Essendon premiership teammate Bill Sewart scored a century. [4] His second match wasn't until seven years later and was a Sheffield Shield encounter against New South Wales at the SCG. He took the wickets of Test players Charlie Macartney and Arthur Mailey. [5] His final match was against Queensland a week later and he finished his career with 84 runs at 14.00 and five wickets at 43.80.

He later moved to Sydney, and played cricket for the North Sydney Cricket Club. [6]

Death

He died (suddenly) at his residence in the Sydney suburb of Northbridge, on 29 May 1954. [7] [8]

See also

Footnotes

  1. Tribute to old Don footballer, The Sporting Globe, (Saturday,5 June 1954), p.5.
  2. "Paddy Shea – Player Bio". Australian Football. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  3. 'Kickero', "Football: Struggle begins Tomorrow: Association's Prospects: Essendon, The Herald, (Friday, 2 May 1919), p.3.
  4. "Victoria v Tasmania 1912/13". CricketArchive.
  5. "New South Wales v Victoria 1919/20". CricketArchive.
  6. 'Rambler', "Among the Crickets: Variable 'Varsity", The Arrow, (Friday, 3 December 1920), p.10.
  7. Deaths: Shea, The Sydney Morning Herald, (Monday, 31 May 1954), p.8.
  8. Paddy Shea dies in NSW, The Sporting Globe, (Saturday, 29 May 1954), p.11.

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