Hugh Francis Brophy (29 May 1879 – 15 September 1932)[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
His father, who was involved in the building trade, was a staunch supporter of Irish independence his entire life and had arrived in Western Australia in 1868 after being convicted and transported for taking part in a Fenian uprising a few years earlier.
Frank Brophy, born in Carlton North, Victoria attended St. Colman's School in Fitzroy and later entered the department of the Postmaster General as a linesman.
In December 1903 he fell off a roof while working on a local building and seriously injured his back and skull.
This Australian rules football biography of a person born in the 1870s is a stub.