John J. Egan

Who is John J. Egan?

John Joseph Egan was the co-head football coach for the Villanova University Wildcats football team in 1900 with John Powers. Together they compiled a record of 5–2–2 in one season. Egan then coached Villanova the following year alone and compiled a 2–3 record, making his overall head coaching record 9–5–2. Later, he also served as athletic director at the University of Maryland. He was a doctor by profession and had practiced and worked as a surgeon in his hometown of Waterbury, Connecticut for 38 years.

He died at a Connecticut veterans' hospital in 1949 after a long illness. Prior to his death he had served as a medic in World War II and was also a chief rating specialist at two Veterans' Administration offices in Connecticut.