Tom Moloughney (footballer)

Tom Moloughney (8 October 1888 – 27 July 1977) was an amateur athlete and an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy and St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Tom Moloughney
Personal information
Full name Thomas Moloughney
Date of birth (1888-10-08)8 October 1888
Place of birth Melbourne, Victoria
Date of death 27 July 1977(1977-07-27) (aged 88)
Place of death Brighton, Victoria
Original team(s) Leopold
Height 170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1911 Fitzroy 1 (0)
1915 St Kilda 1 (0)
Total 2 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1915.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Family

The son of Thomas Moloughney (-1923),[2] and Margaret Moloughney (-1914), née Quan,[3] Thomas Moloughney was born at Melbourne on 8 October 1888.

He married Bessie Tyack in 1917.

Football

Fitzroy (VFL)

Recruited from Leopold, he made his debut, as one of the seven new players for Fitzroy — i.e., Ernie Everett, Jack Furness, Cliff Hutton, Frank Lamont, Tom Moloughney, Danny Murphy, and Eric Watson — against Melbourne on 29 April 1911.[4]

St Kilda (VFL)

Recruited from South Melbourne C.Y.M.S.,[5] he played in one match for the St Kilda First XVIII, against Melbourne, at the Junction Oval, on 29 May 1915.[6][7]

Notes
  1. Holmesby & Main (2014), p.621.
  2. Deaths: Moloughney, The Argus, (Monday, 19 November 1923), p.1.
  3. Deaths: Moloughney, The Argus, (Tuesday, 8 September 1914), p.1.
  4. League Matches, The Australasian, (Saturday, 6 May 1911), p.23.
  5. Football: Practice Matches: St. Kilda v. Collingwood, The Herald, (Saturday, 17 April 1915), p.10.
  6. St. Kilda v. Melbourne, The Herald, (Saturday, 29 May 1915), p.3: note that he was listed as M‘Loughney.
  7. Melbourne (13.11) beat St. Kilda (9.11), The Age, (Monday, 31 May 1915), p.13: note that he was listed as Moloney.

References
  • Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.


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