Tom Vallance

Tom Vallance

Personal information
Full name	Thomas Vallance
Date of birth	27 May 1856
Place of birth	Succoth Farm, Renton, Scotland
Date of death	16 February 1935 (aged 78)
Place of death	Glasgow, Scotland
Playing position	Right-back
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1874-1882	Rangers
1884	Rangers
National team
1877-1881	Scotland	7	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (goals)

Tom Vallance (27 May 1856 – 16 February 1935) was a Scottish footballer. Vallance was the first in a long line of inspirational Rangers captains. He made 38 Scottish Cup appearances for the club.

Football

Before football, Vallance was a rower. He is noted as been abnormally tall for the times but was only around six feet two inches. He played at right-back for Rangers from 1874 to 1882. He left Scotland on 22 February 1882 to take a position in Calcutta. He embarked on a career in the tea plantations of Assam but returned after a year suffering from blackwater fever.^[1]

Vallance was also capped at international level, making seven appearances for Scotland.

After football

He was a successful restaurateur, a poet and an artist, whose paintings were displayed by the Scottish Academy. Reference has been made to a family connection to Sir Stanley Matthews, but this proved not to be the case.

References

1. "Rangers: The forgotten history" Herald (20 August 2009)

External links

• Thomas Vallance at scottishfa.co.uk