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Thomas Heaney

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Thomas Heaney
Personal information
Date of birth 2 April 1888
Date of death 17 August 1928(1928-08-17) (aged 40)
Original team(s) Richmond (VFA)
Height / weight 178cm / 86kg
Career highlights
  • Fitzroy premiership player: 1913 & 1916
  • Fitzroy leading goalkicker: 1916
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Thomas Heaney (2 April 1888 – 17 August 1928) was an Australian rules footballer who played in the VFA between 1906 and 1907 then in the VFL from 1908 until 1913 for the Richmond Football Club. He played for the Fitzroy Football Club between 1913 and 1917 and then again between 1919 and 1921. Finally he played three games for the Port Melbourne Football Club back in the VFA in 1922.

Heaney died from illness, on 17 August 1928, aged 40.[1]

References

  1. ^ "Old Footballer Passes". The Advocate. Burnie, Tas.: National Library of Australia. 23 August 1928. p. 3. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
  • Hogan P: The Tigers Of Old, Richmond FC, Melbourne 1996