{{short description|Australian rules footballer, born 1910}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=September 2015}} {{Infobox AFL biography | name = Alf Egan | image = | fullname = Alfred George Egan | birth_date = {{Birth date|1910|4|3|df=yes}} | birth_place = Wallacedale, Victoria | death_date = {{death date and age|1962|1|21|1910|4|3|df=y}} | death_place = Burnley, Victoria | originalteam = Myamyn | height = 191&nbsp;cm | weight = 82&nbsp;kg | position = | statsend = 1935 | years1 = 1931–1933 | club1 = Carlton | games_goals1 = 36 (20) | years2 = 1934–1935 | club2 = North Melbourne | games_goals2 = 15 (7) | games_goalstotal = 51 (27) | careerhighlights = }} '''Alfred George Egan''' (3 April 1910 – 21 January 1962) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton and North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).<ref>Holmesby & Main, 2007.</ref>

==Family== The son of Edward Egan, and Margaret Egan, née Farrell, Alfred George Egan was born into the Gunditjmara indigenous community at Wallacedale, near Condah, in Western Victoria, on 3 April 1910.

Although his brother, Allan Edmund Egan (1914–1951), was cleared from "Melbourne Boys" to the North Melbourne Seconds in 1937, he did not play any senior VFL football.<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11075681 League Seconds' Permits, ''The Argus'', (Wednesday, 30 June 1937), p.18.]</ref><ref>[https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=546599&c=WW2 World War Two Nominal Roll: Private Allen Edmund Egan (VX144630), ''Department of Veterans' Affairs''.]</ref>

He married Gweneth May Cavenagh in 1950.

==Football== Egan was the first Indigenous Australian to play for Carlton and also the first to play with North Melbourne.<ref>''AFL Record'', Round 9, 2011</ref>

He appeared as a centre half-forward in the 1932 VFL Grand Final, as a replacement for an injured Jack Green, but wasn't able to steer his side to a win.<ref>''Blueseum''.</ref><ref>AFL Tables.</ref>

==Death== He died at Burnley, Victoria on 21 January 1962.<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pp5VAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gbIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7301%2C3048241 Deaths: Egan, ''The Age'', (Wednesday, 24 January 1962), p.18.]</ref>

==See also== Gunditjmara of note

==Notes== {{reflist|1}}

==References== * {{cite book|last=Holmesby|first=Russell|last2=Main|first2=Jim|title=The Encyclopedia Of AFL Footballers| publisher=BAS Publishing|year=2007|isbn=9781920910785}} * [https://www.carltonfc.com.au/news/717543/how-alf-egan-led-the-way De Bolfo, Tony, "How Alf Egan led the way", ''Carlton Media'', carltonfc.com.au, Monday, 14 July 2014.]

==External links== * {{AFL Tables|ref=A/Alf_Egan.html}} * {{AustralianFootball|ref=Alf%2BEgan/5232}} * [https://www.blueseum.org/tiki-index.php?page=Alf%20Egan Alf Egan, at ''Blueseum''.]

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