In the first year of competition, he became one of the club's and leagues first premiership players, during the 1897 VFL season, under the captaincy of George Stuckey.
Cochrane made his debut against Collingwood in one of the finals of the season, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
[1] "Suicide" was the finding after an inquiry into the death of George Cochrane, 37, railway employee, of Pelham street, Carlton.
Evidence was given that Cochrane was found hanging in an outhouse.
This Australian rules football biography of a person born in the 1870s is a stub.