Tom Gleeson (rugby league)

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Tom Gleeson
Personal information
Full nameThomas Patrick Gleeson
Born1889
Kempsey, New South Wales
Died27 Jun 1931
drowned at La Perouse, New South Wales
Playing information
Position Wing, Centre
Club
YearsTeamPldTGFGP
1911–12 Glebe 28170051
1914–22 Huddersfield
1923 Glebe 11003
Total29180054
Representative
YearsTeamPldTGFGP
1912 New South Wales 350015
1912 Metropolis 10000
Source: [1]

Thomas Patrick Gleeson (1889-1931) was an Australian rugby league footballer from the 1910s.

Former Glebe centre Tom Gleeson also had a long career with Huddersfield Giants in England where he partnered the legendary Albert Rosenfeld. "Australian Tommy Gleeson, signed in November 1912 from the Glebe club in Sydney, just three months before protests from the New South Wales Rugby League resulted in a ban on overseas players - a ban which was effective for fourteen years." [2]

He did not return to Australia until after the first world war and played one final season with Glebe in 1923. [3] [4]

Tragic death

Tom Gleeson died in very tragic circumstances when he dived in the ocean from rocks near La Perouse, New South Wales to save his son Martin (aged 12) who had already been washed off the rocks while fishing. Tom Gleeson drowned soon after, and his son also drowned . [5] [6] [7]

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References

  1. ↑ Whiticker/Hudson
  2. ↑ "TEAM OF ALL TALENTS - Huddersfield Rugby League Heritage". www.huddersfieldrlheritage.co.uk.
  3. ↑ Alan Whiticker/Glen Hudson: Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players. 1995. ( ISBN   1875169571)
  4. ↑ TOM GLEESON RETURNS Referee(Sydney) 4/10/1922 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/127926067?searchTerm=%22tom%20gleeson%22
  5. ↑ Rugby League News (Trove) 4 July 1931. page 18 "Passing of League Pioneer" https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-627272716/view?sectionId=nla.obj-639327227&partId=nla.obj-627291118#page/n17/mode/1up
  6. ↑ Sydney Morning Herald - Death Notice 3 July 1931
  7. ↑ Sydney Morning Herald - 29//06/1931 Page 9, "Fatality Feared" https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16789578?searchTerm=%22gleeson%22


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