Ivan McAlpine

Ivan McAlpine
Personal information
Full name	Ivan George McAlpine
Date of birth	19 July 1907
Place of birth	Longwarry, Victoria
Date of death	16 April 1992(1992-04-16) (aged 84)
Place of death	Croydon, Victoria
Original team(s)	Longwarry
Height	182 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	70 kg (154 lb)
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1927–1933	Footscray	112 (24)
1934–1937	Hawthorn	067 (27)
Total		179 (51)
Coaching career
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
1935–1938	Hawthorn	72 (22–50–0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1937.
Career highlights
3× McCarthy trophy: 1927, 1930, 1932
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Ivan George McAlpine (19 July 1907 – 16 April 1992)^[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played for Footscray and Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

McAlpine was wingman and regularly represented Victoria in interstate football. He won the inaugural Footscray Best and Fairest award in 1927 and won the award again in 1930 and 1932. For consecutive seasons in 1931 and 1932 he finished in the top 5 of the Brownlow Medal count.

Having captained Footscray in 1933, his job at Menzies Creek made it difficult for him to attend training so he crossed over to Hawthorn which was closer. He had accepted the role of captain-coach. Despite retiring as a player in 1937 he stayed at the club for the following season as coach.

After the war, McAlpine taught and captain-coached the local St James side near Benalla.^[2] In 1947 he transferred from Benalla to Alfredton.^[3]

While coaching in Ballarat he led Sebastopol to the premiership in the Ballarat B grade competition in 1949.^[4]