Tom Griffin (rugby)
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| Birth name | Thomas Sydney Griffin[1] | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 19 February 1884[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Sydney, New South Wales[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 19 December 1950 (aged 66) | ||||||||||||||||
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Thomas Sydney Griffin (19 February 1884 – 19 December 1950) was an Australian rugby union player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.[2]
Griffin, a hooker, was born in Sydney, New South Wales and claimed a total of six international rugby caps for Australia.[3]
See also
- Rugby union at the 1908 Summer Olympics
- 1912 Australia rugby union tour of Canada and the United States
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Scrum.com player profile of Tom Griffin". Scrum.com. Retrieved 12 July 2010.
- ^ "Tom Griffin". Olympedia. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
- ^ Australian Rugby Team (Touring America), 1912, The Daily Telegraph, (Wednesday, 18 September 1912), p.15.
External links
- Thomas Griffen at databaseOlympics.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 2007-02-16)
- Tom Griffin at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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- 1884 births
- 1950 deaths
- Australian rugby union players
- Australia international rugby union players
- Rugby union players at the 1908 Summer Olympics
- Olympic rugby union players for Australasia
- Olympic gold medalists for Australasia
- Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics
- Rugby union players from Sydney
- Rugby union hookers
- Australian rugby union biography stubs