Joe McShane
Joseph Francis McShane was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club and the Carlton Football Club between 1887 and 1904.
Family
The son of Philip McShane, and Mary Ann McShane, née McCabe, Joseph Francis McShane was born at Geelong on 29 November 1868. His brothers Henry and Jim also played with Geelong, and later at Carlton.He married Joanna Ryan, at Melbourne, on 5 July 1882.
Football
Geelong (VFA/VFL)
One of the six McShane brothers who played in the VFA or VFL for Geelong, McShane started his career at Geelong in the Victorian Football Association in 1887, and played 210 games for the club, becoming the first Geelong player to play 200 games for the club before moving to Carlton in 1902.1899
At the end of the 1899 season, in the process of naming his own "champion player", the football correspondent for The Argus, selected a team of the best players of the 1899 VFL competition:From those he considered to be the three best players — that is, Condon, Hickey, and Pleass — he selected Pat Hickey as his "champion player" of the season.