Jim Bohan

{{short description|Australian rules footballer, born 1919}}

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{{Use Australian English|date=September 2015}}

{{Infobox AFL biography

| name = Jim Bohan

| image = Jim Bohan.png

| fullname = James Joseph Vincent Bohan

| birth_date = 21 July 1919

| birth_place = Hawthorn, Victoria

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1967|10|13|1919|7|21}}

| death_place = Fitzroy, Victoria

| height = 179 cm

| weight = 78 kg

| position =

| statsend = 1946

| years1 = 1938–1946

| club1 = Hawthorn

| games_goals1 = 131 (145)

| years2 = 1947-1953

| club2 = Camberwell

| games_goals2 = 136 (220)

| games_goalstotal = 267 (365)

| careerhighlights =

• Hawthorn captain: 1944, 1946
• 2× Hawthorn best and fairest: 1943, 1945
• 3× Camberwell Best & Fairest: 1951, 52 & 53

}}

James Joseph Vincent Bohan (21 July 1919 – 13 October 1967){{cite web|title=Genealogy|url=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?MS_AdvCB=1&db=pubmembertrees&rank=1&new=1&so=3&MSAV=2&msT=1&pcat=ROOT_CATEGORY&gss=ms_r_db&gsfn_x=1&gsln=bohan&gsln_x=1&msbdy=1919&msbdy_x=1&msbdm_x=1&msbdd_x=1&msddy=1967&msddy_x=1&msddm_x=1&msddd_x=1&uidh=924&msbdd=21&msbdm=7&msddd=13&msddm=10|publisher=ancestry.com|access-date=22 August 2013}} was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the VFL. He played in the centre or at centre half forward.

Bohan captained Hawthorn in 1944 and 1946 and despite playing with the club for almost a decade, he never once appeared in a finals match. He won Hawthorn's 'Best and Fairest' award in 1943 and 1945.

In a match against Vehicle Park in Albury in September 1945, Bohun kicked 20 goals.{{cite web |title=1945 - Australian Rules Football |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/258034865# |publisher=Border Morning Mail |access-date=1 August 2021 |pages=5 |date=17 September 1945}}

He then left the club without a clearance in 1947 to join VFA side Camberwell, which was then playing under throw-pass rules,{{cite news|newspaper=The Argus|publication-place=Melbourne, VIC|title=J. Bohan incurs League suspension|date=10 April 1947|page=13}} where he went on to play 140 games and won their best and fairest award in 1951, 1952 and 1953.

In 2003 he was named as centreman in Hawthorn's official Team of the Century, and as full back in Camberwell's Team of the Century.{{cite news|newspaper=Hamilton Spectator|publication-place=Hamilton, VIC|date=7 August 2003|author=Michael Howard|title=Star status confirmed|url=http://www.spec.com.au/blog/2003/08/07/star-status-confirmed/|access-date=21 March 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140321065547/http://www.spec.com.au/blog/2003/08/07/star-status-confirmed/|archive-date=21 March 2014|df=dmy-all}}