Dan Minogue

For the federal MP, see Dan Minogue (politician).

Not to be confused with Dannii Minogue.

Daniel Thomas Minogue (4 September 1891 – 27 July 1961) was an Australian rules footballer, who played with three different clubs in the (then) Victorian Football League (VFL), and who was the coach of five different VFL clubs.

Dan Minogue
Dan Minogue, holding a Sherrin football, during his Collingwood career
Personal information
Full name	Daniel Thomas Minogue
Date of birth	(1891-09-04)4 September 1891
Place of birth	Bendigo, Victoria
Date of death	27 July 1961(1961-07-27) (aged 69)
Place of death	Repatriation General Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria
Original team(s)	St Killian's California Gully
Height	180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	87 kg (192 lb)
Playing career^1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1911–1916	Collingwood	085 (37)
1920–1925	Richmond	094 (38)
1926	Hawthorn	001 0(2)
Total		180 (77)
Coaching career^3
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
1920–1925	Richmond	105 00(59–45–1)
1926–1927	Hawthorn	036 000(4–31–1)
1929–1934	Carlton	117 00(85–32–0)
1935–1937	St Kilda	054 00(30–24–0)
1940–1942	Fitzroy	051 00(25–26–0)
Total		363 (203–158–2)
^1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1926. ^3 Coaching statistics correct as of 1942.
Career highlights
AIF Pioneer Exhibition Game, London, 28 October 1916 Richmond premiership captain-coach 1920, 1921 Collingwood captain 1914–1916 Richmond captain 1920–1925 Hawthorn captain 1926 Australian Football Hall of Fame, inducted 1996 Richmond Hall of Fame, inducted 2002
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Family

The son of Matthew Minogue (1868-1899),^[1] and Ellen Minogue (1868-1896), née Madden,^[2] Daniel Thomas Minogue was born at Bendigo on 4 September 1891.

He married Ann Marion Morrison (1893-1968) on 30 March 1921.^[3]

Education

He was educated at the Marist Brothers' College, Bendigo.

Football

Collingwood (VFL)

Minogue was considered a courageous, or perhaps reckless, centre half-back. On one occasion he sustained a broken collarbone playing for Collingwood Football Club in the first minute of the 1911 VFL Grand Final and then played out the entire match.

 

The Third Australian Divisional Team: 28 October 1916.^[4] Minogue is the fifth player from left, in the middle row.

Third Divisional team (AIF)

While serving in World War I, Minogue vice-captained the (winning) Third Australian Divisional team in the famous "Pioneer Exhibition Game" of Australian Rules football, held in London, in October 1916. A news film was taken at the match.^[5][6]

Richmond (VFL)

Unhappy at Collingwood's treatment of his friend and former teammate, Jim Sadler, during the war, Minogue demanded a transfer to Richmond on his return from AIF service during World War I^[7][8] created ill feeling and he had to stand out of competition for twelve months in order to secure the transfer.

Coach

In addition to playing at three VFL clubs (Collingwood, Richmond, and Hawthorn) he also coached at five VFL clubs (Richmond, Hawthorn, Carlton, St Kilda, and Fitzroy) — a record which (as of June 2022^[update]) is yet to be equalled.

VFL players' advocate

In August 1947, he was appointed as the official VFL players's advocate; a position he held until his death.^[9]

Death

He died at the Repatriation General Hospital, in Heidelberg, Victoria, on 27 July 1961.^[10][11]

Hall of fame

In 1996 Minogue was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame.

See also

• 1916 Pioneer Exhibition Game

Footnotes

1. Death of a young Bendigonian, The Bendigo Advertiser, (Friday, 7 April 1899), p.2.
2. Death: Minogue, The Bendigo Advertiser, (Wednesday, 21 October 1896, p.2.
3. Orange Blossom: Mr. Daniel Minogue to Miss Annie Morrison, The Richmond Guardian, (Saturday, 9 April 1921), p.4.
4. Detail of Organised by Australian Olympic swimmer Lieutenant Frank Beaurepaire, etc., in the collection of the Australian War Memorial (Accession number: H16689).
5. The original newsreel: Australian Football (Pathé Newsreel, 1916) on YouTube
6. The 2019 remastered and colourised version of the original newsreel: Australian Football (Pathé Newsreel, 1916), remastered and colourised version (2019) on YouTube
7. "Daniel Thomas Minogue". National Archives of Australia.
8. "Former skipper Dan Minogue, a close friend who worked with Sadler at the South Melbourne gasworks, had become intensely unhappy with what he felt had been the club’s unfair treatment of his mate. It was never clearly articulated, but he seems to have believed that Sadler wasn’t given the opportunities he deserved across 1916-17. So even though Sadler’s retirement letter betrayed no bitterness, Minogue was furious. And his fury festered while serving his country in France during the First World War. So deep-seated was Minogue’s anger that, when he came home in 1919, he stunned the football world by refusing to play with Collingwood, opting instead for Richmond." (Jim Sadler (1908-1917), at Collingwood Forever)
9. Poaching Alleged, The Age, (Saturday, 30 August 1947), p.5.
10. Deaths: Minogue, The Age, (Friday, 28 July 1961), p.15.
11. Mr. Dan NNMinogue's Funeral Today, The Age, (Friday, 28 July 1961), p.20.

References

 

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dan Minogue.

• Pioneer Exhibition Game Australian Football: in aid of British and French Red Cross Societies: 3rd Australian Division v. Australian Training Units at Queen's Club, West Kensington, on Saturday, October 28th, 1916, at 3pm, Wightman & Co., (London), 1919.
• Hogan P: The Tigers Of Old, Richmond FC, (Melbourne), 1996. ISBN 0-646-18748-1
• Minogue, D. & Millard, P.J., "Famous A.I.F. Match in London: Unknown Richmond Lad was the Star", The Sporting Globe, (Saturday, 21 August 1937), p.8.
• Richardson, N. (2016), The Game of Their Lives, Pan Macmillan Australia: Sydney. ISBN 978-1-7435-3666-7
• Ross, J. (ed), 100 Years of Australian Football 1897–1996: The Complete Story of the AFL, All the Big Stories, All the Great Pictures, All the Champions, Every AFL Season Reported, Viking, (Ringwood), 1996. ISBN 0-670-86814-0
• Ross, John (1999). The Australian Football Hall of Fame. Australia: HarperCollinsPublishers. p. 98. ISBN 0-7322-6426-X.
• Photograph at Daniel Thomas Minogue, at Discovering Anzacs.
• First World War Embarkation Roll: Gunner Daniel Thomas Minogue (24559), collection of the Australian War Memorial.
• First World War Nominal Roll: Gunner Daniel Thomas Minogue (24559), collection of the Australian War Memorial.
• First World War Service Record: Gunner Daniel Thomas Minogue (24559), National Archives of Australia.

External links

• Dan Minogue's playing statistics from AFL Tables
• Dan Minogue's coaching record, at AFL Tables.
• Dan Minogue at AustralianFootball.com
• Collingwood Forever Profile