Tom Rankin

Tom Rankin
Tom Rankin, Geelong footballer, 1905
Personal information
Full name	Tom Rankin
Date of birth	3 May 1881
Date of death	18 February 1958 (aged 76)
Height/Weight	180 cm / 70 kg
Playing career^1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1904-06	Geelong	47 (12)
^1 Playing statistics correct to end of 1906 season.

Thomas Charles Rankin (known as Tom) (3 May 1881 – 18 February 1958) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL).^[1] His brother, Edwin (known as ‘Teddy’) and other members of the Rankin family also played for Geelong.^[2]

Rankin got off to a promising start in the 1904 and early 1905 seasons, but his career was compromised by serious injuries to his knee and kidney sustained during a match in May 1905.^[3] He married Adeline Harrison and raised a family of ten children. After football, he remained in Geelong where he worked as a gardener and greenkeeper.^[4]

Notes

1. Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 730. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
2. http://www.geelongcats.com.au/club/history/every-player/r-z.
3. Geelong Advertiser, 8 May, 1905, p. 2; Record, 13 May 1905, p. 3.
4. J. and J. McDonald, Three William McDonalds, Canberra, 2010, pp. 91-93.

External links

• Tom Rankin's statistics from AFL Tables
• Tom Rankin's profile from AustralianFootball.com