Stan Thomas (Australian footballer)

Stan Thomas
Personal information
Date of birth	9 May 1892
Date of death	2 November 1958(1958-11-02) (aged 66)
Original team(s)	Barwon
Debut	Round 3, 1915, Geelong v. Melbourne, at the MCG
Height/Weight	180 cm / 79 kg
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1915-1925	Geelong	137 (6)
Coaching career
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
1926	North Melbourne	1 (0-1-0)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 1925 season.

Stan 'Dasher' Thomas (9 May 1892 – 2 November 1958)^[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Thomas first put on the Geelong guernsey in 1915 but sat out of the 1916 season. From 1917 to 1925 he was a regular member of Geelong's defence and at one stage represented Victoria at interstate football. He only played one finals match in his career, a Semi Final in 1923 against Fitzroy.

His career ended when he was given a 26-game suspension (the remainder of 1925 and all of 1926) for escalating an all-in brawl that involved players and team officials in Geelong's controversial Round 12, 1925 match against North Melbourne.

Following his retirement, Thomas joined the coaching staff at North Melbourne and coached them for one game in the 1926 season.

References

↑ "Stan Thomas - Player Bio". Australian Football. Retrieved 27 December 2014.

Stan Thomas's statistics from AFL Tables
Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.

Coaches of the North Melbourne Football Club

1925–1926: Eicke 1926: Donnelly 1926: S. Thomas 1927: Barker 1928–1929: Tyson 1929: Noonan 1930: Lewis 1931: Pemberton 1931: Clark 1932: Cameron 1932–1934: Taylor 1934: Fitzmaurice 1935–1937: Scanlan 1938–1939: Forbes 1940: L. Thomas 1940: Adamson 1941–1942: McCaskill 1942–1943: Findlay 1944–1947: McCaskill 1948–1953: Carter 1954–1955: McCorkell 1956–1957: Gaudion 1958–1962: Carter 1963–1966: Killigrew 1966–1970: McKenzie 1971–1972: Dixon 1973–1980: Barassi 1976: Jordon 1977: Dugdale 1981: Blight 1981–1984: Cable 1985–1989: Kennedy 1990–1992: Schimmelbusch 1993–2002: Pagan 2003–2009: Laidley 2009: Crocker 2010–: Scott 2015: Crocker

Italics denote caretaker coach

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