Michael Hogan (sportsman)
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Michael Hogan (1896-1920) was a Gaelic football player, and captain of the Tipperary GAA team.
He was one of two players shot at Croke Park on Bloody Sunday, November 21, 1920, in a massacre by the Auxiliary Division. British police auxiliaries entered the ground, shot indiscriminately into the crowd and killed 15 people (60 people required hospital treatment) during a Dublin-Tipperary football match. Another player, Jim Egan, was shot and injured. A young man attending the game, came to the aid of the dying Michael Hogan, whispering the Act of Contrition to him.
Hogan's name was given posthumously to the Hogan Stand at Croke Park, built in 1924.