Jimmy Hogan, Burnley football player and international coach.

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277191

Reference identifier

EBU20180918011

Title

Jimmy Hogan, Burnley football player and international coach.

Place

Burnley

Personal names

James Hogan, Jimmy Hogan,Ron Atkinson, Tommy Docherty, Baron Dirstay.

General notes

James Hogan was born in Nelson 16.10.1882  He played for several clubs as an inside-forward, but mainly  Burnley 1903-1905 and Bolton Wanderers in two spells, 1908-1913.  Having finished playing, he moved to Austria as a coach in 1914 to help prepare  the national team for the 1916 Olympics. When war broke out, he was arrested as a foreign national. His wife and children were helped to leave Vienna in March 1915  by the American consul. Hogan was imprisoned but his release was secured by the Blythe Brothers, English owners of a department store in Vienna  thus narrowly preventing him  being taken to a prisoner of war camp.  He worked for them until the British educated vice-president of club  MTK Budapest, Baron Dirstay,  gave him a job as coach. (Accounts of this time do vary.) When his wife arrived home she told the Burnley News (17.4.1915 p. 5,) all about conditions in Austria and  her journey home.   When Hogan got back to his family in Liverpool in 1918, he was refused financial help by the F.A. who considered him a traitor.

He then had a remarkable career of coaching in Europe both at club and national level, in Holland , France, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary and Germany and the family  had further adventures fleeing Nazi Germany. He coached briefly at Fulham, and finally at Aston Villa from 1936-39.    After the war he worked for Celtic and Brentford.  He was ahead of his time as a coach emphasising possession football and fitness, and is credited with influencing a generation of later managers both British and European, such as Ron Atkinson from his time at Villa, and Tommy Docherty from Celtic. When Hungary beat England 6-3 at Wembley in 1953, the Hungarian coach acknowledged Hogan had taught them all they knew about football. On retirement, he returned to Burnley and supported Burnley FC until ill health prevented him attending games.  He died in Burnley on 30.1.1974 aged 91.  His son received a letter of condolence from the German FA calling Hogan "The father of modern football in Germany".   As the photo is kept at Burnley Library, it is assumed that the signed  image shows Hogan during his Burnley days so presumably around 1905 although on-line it is also dated as 1908.  Burnley played in green until  1911.  There are a lot of on-line sources about Jim Hogan, and he features in several books, and an autobiography Prophet or Traitor?: The Jimmy Hogan Story by Norman Fox.

James Hogan was born in Nelson 16.10.1882 He played for several clubs as an inside-forward, but mainly Burnley 1903-1905 and Bolton Wanderers in two spells, 1908-1913. Having finished playing, he moved to Austria as a coach in 1914 to help prepare the national team for the 1916 Olympics. When war broke out, he was arrested as a foreign national. His wife and children were helped to leave Vienna in March 1915 by the American consul. Hogan was imprisoned but his release was secured by the Blythe Brothers, English owners of a department store in Vienna thus narrowly preventing him being taken to a prisoner of war camp. He worked for them until the British educated vice-president of club MTK Budapest, Baron Dirstay, gave him a job as coach. (Accounts of this time do vary.) When his wife arrived home she told the Burnley News (17.4.1915 p. 5,) all about conditions in Austria and her journey home. When Hogan got back to his family in Liverpool in 1918, he was refused financial help by the F.A. who considered him a traitor.

He then had a remarkable career of coaching in Europe both at club and national level, in Holland , France, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary and Germany and the family had further adventures fleeing Nazi Germany. He coached briefly at Fulham, and finally at Aston Villa from 1936-39. After the war he worked for Celtic and Brentford. He was ahead of his time as a coach emphasising possession football and fitness, and is credited with influencing a generation of later managers both British and European, such as Ron Atkinson from his time at Villa, and Tommy Docherty from Celtic. When Hungary beat England 6-3 at Wembley in 1953, the Hungarian coach acknowledged Hogan had taught them all they knew about football. On retirement, he returned to Burnley and supported Burnley FC until ill health prevented him attending games. He died in Burnley on 30.1.1974 aged 91. His son received a letter of condolence from the German FA calling Hogan "The father of modern football in Germany". As the photo is kept at Burnley Library, it is assumed that the signed image shows Hogan during his Burnley days so presumably around 1905 although on-line it is also dated as 1908. Burnley played in green until 1911. There are a lot of on-line sources about Jim Hogan, and he features in several books, and an autobiography Prophet or Traitor?: The Jimmy Hogan Story by Norman Fox.

Medium

Photographic print

Colour

Monochrome

Original image size

9 x 13.5

Year of image

1905

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Locator

W136 (116)

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