Billy Egan | |
Fullname: | William Martin Egan |
Birth Date: | 7 November 1886 |
Birth Place: | North Melbourne, Victoria |
Death Place: | Fitzroy, Victoria |
Originalteam: | Footscray (VFA) |
Statsend: | 1909 |
Years1: | 1909 |
Games Goals1: | 8 (0) |
William Martin Egan (7 November 1886 – 28 February 1941) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]
The son of Keiran Egan (-1948), and Margaret Egan, née Carrol, William Martin Egan was born at North Melbourne, Victoria on 7 November 1886.
He married Amy Elizabeth May Forbes (1891-) in 1920.
He played for at least two seasons (1904 and 1905) with the West Sydney Football Club in the New South Wales Football League.[2] [3] He played for the Combined Sydney team that defeated the Combined Northern Districts team on 23 July 1904.[4]
Cleared from West Sydney to the Prahran Football Club in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) in May 1907.[5] [6]
Cleared from Prahran to the Footscray Football Club in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) in April 1908.[7]
Granted a clearance from Footscray to St Kilda Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) in 1909.[8]
In June 1912 he was granted a clearance from St Kilda to the Melbourne City Football Club in the Victorian Football Association (VFA).[9]
He died at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne on 28 February 1941.[10]