Thomas Timothy Archer (13 February 1897 – 24 September 1990) was an
Australian rules football
Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...
er who played with
St Kilda in the
Victorian Football League
The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...
(VFL).
In 1925, Archer was appointed as coach of the
Hume Weir Football Club in the
Ovens and Murray Football League
The Ovens and Murray Football Netball League (O&MFNL) is an Australian rules football and netball competition containing ten clubs based in north-eastern Victoria, Australia, Victoria, the southern Riverina region of New South Wales, Austral ...
.
Archer returned home in 1926 and played in Mangoplah's 1926 – Wagga United Football Association premiership side that defeated Tootool at The Rock.
In 1934, Archer was elected as President of the Wagga Australian Rules Football Association.
During World War II he served in the
Volunteer Defence Corps, enlisting in Sydney in 1942.
Archer would later become the manager of the famous Sydney landmark, Petty's Hotel.
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1897 births
1990 deaths
Australian rules footballers from New South Wales
St Kilda Football Club players
Volunteer Defence Corps soldiers
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