Career
He served as the co-head football coach at Villanova College—now known as Villanova University—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 7–5–2.
Later, he also served as athletic director at the University of Maryland.
Egan was a doctor by profession and practiced as a surgeon in his hometown of Waterbury, Connecticut for 38 years. He served as a major in the Medical Corps of the United States Army during World World War II and was also a chief rating specialist at two Veterans" Administration offices in Connecticut.
Egan died at a Connecticut veterans" hospital in 1949 after a long illness.
