{{short description|Australian rules footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=September 2015}} {{Infobox AFL biography | name = Dean Hartigan | image = | fullname = Dean Hartigan | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1954|8|23|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | originalteam = Horsham | height = 180 cm | weight = 73 kg | position = Back pocket | statsend = 1977 | years1 = 1974–1977 | club1 = Essendon | games_goals1 = 36 (1) | careerhighlights = }} '''Dean Hartigan''' (born 23 August 1954) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
==Biography== ===Essendon career=== Hartigan, a recruit from Horsham, started out in the Essendon Under 19s, which he joined in 1972.<ref name="Essendon">{{cite web|url=http://www.essendonfc.com.au/our-club/history/past-player-profiles/past-player-profiles---h|title=Past Player Profiles – H|publisher=essendonfc.com.au|accessdate=26 August 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150706150436/http://www.essendonfc.com.au/our-club/history/past-player-profiles/past-player-profiles---h|archivedate=6 July 2015|df=dmy-all}}</ref> He got called up to the seniors for the first time in the 1974 VFL season.<ref name="AFLTables">{{cite web|url=http://afltables.com/afl/stats/players/D/Dean_Hartigan_gm.html|title=AFL Tables – Dean Hartigan – Games Played|publisher=AFL Tables|accessdate=26 August 2015}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite book|last=Murray, John|title=Glory and Fame: The Rise and Rise of the Essendon Football Club| publisher=Slattery Media Group|year=2009|pages=48|isbn=978-0-9805162-9-6}}</ref> 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.<ref name="AFLTables"/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19740805&id=18JUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4JADAAAAIBAJ&pg=6335,1197196&hl=en|title=Richmond roars to the top|last=Sheahan|first=Mike|date=5 August 1974|work=The Age|page=26|accessdate=26 August 2015}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19750707&id=KE8QAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PpIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6980,1479523&hl=en|title=For game, read shame|last=Barker|first=Geoff|date=7 July 1975|work=The Age|page=20|accessdate=26 August 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/more-sports/fields-admits-starting-blue/story-e6frfglf-1111113897743|title=Fields admits starting blue|last=Anderson|first=Jon|date=6 July 2007|work=Herald Sun|accessdate=26 August 2015}}</ref> A back pocket player, Hartigan finished the 1975 season with 15 games.<ref name="AFLTables"/> 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.<ref name="AFLTables"/> In 1977, his final season, Hartigan played just three league games.<ref name="AFLTables"/>
===Later career=== From 1978 to 1981, Hartigan played for Coburg in the Victorian Football Association (VFA).<ref name="Essendon"/> He was a back pocket in Coburg's 1979 premiership winning team.<ref>{{cite book|last=Fiddian|first=Marc|title=The VFA – A History of the Victorian Football Association 1877 – 1995|year=2013|publisher=Melbourne Sports Books|pages=282}}</ref> In 1980 he was a VFA representative and played in the Coburg side which lost to Port Melbourne the grand final.<ref name="Essendon"/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19800922&id=SOdUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4ZIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1939,3335762&hl=en|title=Port snatches flag in Lion taming finale|last=Fiddian|first=Marc|date=22 September 1980|work=The Age|page=27|accessdate=26 August 2015}}</ref>
He left Coburg in 1982 to captain-coach Seddon, then from 1983 to 1987 captain-coached Aberfeldie.<ref name="Essendon"/>
===Family=== Hartigan was not the first member of his family to play VFL football.<ref>{{cite book|last=Holmesby|first=Russell|last2=Main|first2=Jim|title=The Encyclopedia Of AFL Footballers| publisher=BAS Publishing|year=2007|isbn=9781920910785}}</ref> His father, Jack Hartigan, played for Hawthorn and St Kilda in the 1950s.<ref name="Hillier">{{cite book|last=Hillier, K.|title=Like Father Like Son| publisher=Pennon Publishing, Melbourne|year=2004|pages=209|isbn=1-877029-73-4}}</ref>
Brent Hartigan, his son, played for Richmond from 2004 to 2006.<ref name="Hillier"/>
==References== {{reflist|1}}
==External links== *{{AFL Tables|ref=D/Dean_Hartigan.html}} *{{AustralianFootball|ref=dean%2Bhartigan/10744}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hartigan, Dean}} Category:1954 births Category:Living people Category:Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Category:Essendon Football Club players Category:Coburg Football Club players Category:Aberfeldie Football Club players Category:20th-century Australian sportsmen