Alan Joseph McDonald (23 June 1918 – 2 May 1999) was an

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

player who played in the

VFL The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...

between 1939 and 1941 and then again in 1943 for the

Richmond Football Club The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed the Tigers, is an Australian rules football team playing in the Australian Football League (AFL). Between its inception in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond in 1885 and 1907, the club competed in the Victo ...

. He coached South Bendigo from 1947 to 1956, then was senior coach of

Richmond Richmond most often refers to: * Richmond, Virginia, the capital of Virginia, United States * Richmond, London, a part of London * Richmond, North Yorkshire, a town in England * Richmond, British Columbia, a city in Canada * Richmond, California, ...

from 1957 to 1960.

References

* Hogan P: ''The Tigers Of Old'', Richmond FC, Melbourne 1996 Richmond Football Club players Richmond Football Club coaches Leongatha Football Club players South Bendigo Football Club players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) 1918 births 1999 deaths {{AFL-bio-1918-stub