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Alan Thaw
Personal information
Birth	17 January 1926
Recruited from	North Essendon Methodists
Height and weight	170 cm / 76 kg
Playing career¹
Debut	Round 14, 1949, Essendon v. St Kilda, at Windy Hill
Team(s)	Essendon (1949-50, 1952-54) 41 games, 0 goals
¹ Statistics to end of 1954 season

Alan Thaw (17 January 1926 - March, 2007) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Essendon in the VFL during the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Recruited locally, Thaw was a back pocket in Essendon's 1949 premiership side. He retired in 1954 and the following season was put in charge of the Reserves team, coaching them until 1959. In the 1959 VFL season he coached Essendon to a win over Fitzroy when Dick Reynolds was unavailable. From 1960 to 1976, Thaw was coach of Essendon's Under-19s and steered them to premierships in 1961 and 1966.

References

Alan Thaw's statistics from AFL Tables
Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.

v t e Essendon Football Club 1949 VFL Premiers

Essendon 18.17 (125) defeated Carlton 6.16 (52), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground

Captain: 3. Reynolds 1. Fisher 2. Rawle 4. McDonald 6. Hassell 7. Hutchison 9. Leehane 10. Coleman 11. McEwin 12. May 17. Lambert 18. Gardiner 22. Lane 23. Brittingham 24. Jones 25. McConnell 26. Syme 27. Bradley 31. McClure 36. Thaw

Coach: Reynolds

v t e Coaches of the Essendon Football Club

1908–1909: Smith 1910: Belcher 1911–1915; 1918–1920:* Worrall 1920–1921: Ogden 1922: Gravenall 1922–1924: Barker 1925–1927: Maher 1928–1930: Hardy 1931–1933: Campbell 1934–1935: May 1936–1939: Baggott 1939: Reynolds/Hunter 1939–1960: Reynolds 1941: Griggs 1944: Plummer 1945; 1946: Ruddell 1959: Thaw 1961–1967: Coleman 1965: Sewell 1968–1970: Clarke 1971: Birt 1972–1975: Tuddenham 1976–1977: Stephen 1978–1980: Davis 1981–2007: Sheedy 2006: O'Donnell 2008–2010: Knights 2011–: Hird

Essendon did not participate in the VFL from 1916–1917 due to World War I Italics* denote caretaker coach

Persondata
Name	Thaw, Alan
Alternative names
Short description	Australian rules footballer and coach
Date of birth	17 January 1926
Place of birth
Date of death	2007
Place of death

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