Tom Rankin

Tom Rankin

Tom Rankin, Geelong footballer, 1905
Personal information
Full name Tom Rankin
Date of birth (1881-05-03)3 May 1881
Date of death 18 February 1958(1958-02-18) (aged 76)
Height/Weight 180 cm / 70 kg
Playing career1
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.

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