Thomas Charles Ellis (1904 – 1995) was an Australian
rugby league
Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ...
footballer who played in the 1920s and 1930s.
Background
Ellis was born at Balmain South in 1904.
Playing career
Ellis went on to come one of the finest players ever to represent the
Newtown club. A Marrickville junior, Ellis played 11 seasons for Newtown between 1923-1933.
He retired after winning the
1933 Grand Final, playing fullback in the
Newtown Jets
The Newtown Jets are an Australian rugby league football club based in Newtown, a suburb of Sydney's inner west. They currently compete in the NSW Cup competition, having left the top grade after the 1983 NSWRFL season. The Jets' home ground ...
premiership team. A prolific goal kicker, Tom Ellis scored over 500 points in his 144 grade career at Newtown.
His only representative appearance was in 1928, when he played one match for
New South Wales
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He coached the
Newtown third grade team for many years, and won the premiership with them in 1935. He was the brother of fellow Newtown legends
Keith Ellis and
Allan Ellis.
Tom Ellis died on 23 May 1995, aged 91.
[Sydney Morning Herald: Death Notice 24/5/1995]
References
1904 births
1995 deaths
Newtown Jets players
New South Wales rugby league team players
Australian rugby league players
Rugby league fullbacks
Rugby league players from Sydney
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