Frank Hanna (5 April 1924 – 28 November 2010) was a former

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 ...

er who played with

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

in the

Victorian Football League 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 ...

(VFL). In 1948 he was badly injured when

Jack Dyer John Raymond Dyer Sr. OAM (15 November 1913 – 23 August 2003), nicknamed Captain Blood, was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1931 and 1949. One of the ga ...

strongly bumped him, breaking his collarbone and suffering a concussion. He was carried from the ground on the stretcher and Dyer played the remainder of the game thinking he had killed Hanna. In 1949 he coached the

Horsham Football Club The Horsham Football & Netball Club, nicknamed the ''Demons'', is an Australian rules football and netball club based in the city of Horsham, Victoria. The football team competes in the Wimmera Football League The Wimmera Football League ...

before moving to Tasmania in 1950 to coach

Yeoman Football Club The Yeoman Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in Burnie, Tasmania, which plays its home games at Wivenhoe Showgrounds, Burnie. It competes in the Darwin Football Association, running Senior and Reserve Grade sides. Formati ...

and then

Burnie Football Club Burnie Dockers Football Club is an Australian rules football club in Burnie, Tasmania, Australia. The club currently competes in the North West Football League (NWFL). Club history The Burnie Dockers were formed as a result of a merger betwe ...

from 1951.

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Frank Hanna's profile
at Demonwiki Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Melbourne Football Club players Horsham Football Club players Burnie Football Club players 1924 births 2010 deaths {{AFL-bio-1920s-stub