Frank Thomas (Australian footballer)

Frank Thomas
Personal information
Full name Frank Charles Thomas
Born (1905-01-19)19 January 1905
Kerang, Victoria
Died 6 May 2001(2001-05-06) (aged 96)
Carnegie, Victoria
Original team Oakleigh
Height 188 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight 76 kg (168 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1927 Hawthorn 10 (4)
1933–1934 Sturt (SANFL) 16 (6)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1934.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Frank Charles Thomas (19 January 1905 – 6 May 2001) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and Sturt in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL)[1]

Early life

The fourth of the five children of the Rev James William Thomas (1863–1949)[2] and Annie Amelia James (1867–1938),[3] Frank Charles Thomas was born at Kerang on 19 January 1905.

After the first couple of years of his life in Kerang, the Thomas family moved to Hamilton and then Shepparton[4] and then Richmond.[5] Frank Thomas completed his schooling at Melbourne High School.

Football

After leaving school, Thomas played with the Y.M.C.A. team in the Melbourne Districts Association before transferring to Oakleigh in 1921. He trained with Richmond in 1922, playing a single game with the senior team in a match against a Ballarat League combination[6] before returning to Oakleigh.[7] In 1926 he played with Elsternwick in the Metropolitan Amateur competition.[8]

Thomas was granted a permit from Richmond to Hawthorn early in the 1927 season.[9] He made his debut in Round 5, against Carlton[10] and he played ten of the remaining fourteen games that season, being part of a losing side on each occasion.

Thomas returned to Oakleigh in 1928[11] and then played with Kew from 1929.[12]

In 1933, Thomas was granted a permit to play with Sturt in the SANFL[13] where he played for two years.

Later life

On 11 May 1929, Frank Thomas married Olive Blanche Hallo at Kew Baptist Church.

Thomas worked as a banker, commencing as a bank clerk and ultimately serving as a branch manager for the Bank of N.S.W. in locations including Mildura, Camperdown and Seaforth. Following his retirement, he returned to Victoria and lived at Carnegie in South-East Melbourne.

Frank Charles Thomas died on 5 May 2001 at Carnegie and was cremated at Springvale Botanical Cemetery.[14]

Notes

  1. ^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Melbourne, Victoria: Bas Publishing. p. 875. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. ^ "Family Notices". The Argus. No. 31, 944. Victoria, Australia. 19 January 1949. p. 10.
  3. ^ "Family Notices". The Argus. No. 28, 680. Victoria, Australia. 25 July 1938. p. 8.
  4. ^ "DEPARTURE OF REV. J. W. THOMAS". Hamilton Spectator. No. 8263. Victoria, Australia. 4 June 1912. p. 4.
  5. ^ "PASTORS RECEIVE CALLS". Weekly Times. No. 2, 451. Victoria, Australia. 29 July 1916. p. 8.
  6. ^ "FOOTBALL". The Ballarat Star. No. 20169. Victoria, Australia. 14 April 1922. p. 8.
  7. ^ "Oakleigh's Wonderful Find". Sporting Globe. No. 200. Victoria, Australia. 28 June 1924. p. 7.
  8. ^ "METROPOLITAN AMATEURS". The Age. No. 22194. Victoria, Australia. 24 May 1926. p. 7.
  9. ^ "FOOTBALL". The Age. No. 22507. Victoria, Australia. 26 May 1927. p. 5.
  10. ^ "CLUB NOTES". The Age. No. 22508. Victoria, Australia. 27 May 1927. p. 7.
  11. ^ "Football". The Herald. No. 15, 888. Victoria, Australia. 20 April 1928. p. 15.
  12. ^ "LEAGUE DEFERS PERMIT". The Sun News-pictorial. No. 3299. Victoria, Australia. 13 April 1933. p. 23.
  13. ^ "League Football CLEARANCES GRANTED TO PLAYERS". The News. Vol. XX, no. 3, 043. South Australia. 20 April 1933. p. 11.
  14. ^ "Frank Charles Thomas". Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust.
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