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Tom Everuss
Personal information
Full name Thomas James Everuss
Date of birth (1903-10-18)18 October 1903
Place of birth Broken Hill, New South Wales
Date of death 18 May 1979(1979-05-18) (aged 75)
Place of death Umina Beach, New South Wales
Original team(s) South Broken Hill
Height / weight 178 cm / 76 kg
Position(s) Defender
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Thomas James Everuss (18 October 1903 – 18 May 1979) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

After commencing his career with South Broken Hill Football Club, Everuss and his team-mate Lindsay Beck both joined Hawthorn at the start of the 1926 VFL season.[2] He made his debut against North Melbourne in Round 2[3] and played every game for the remainder of the season. Everuss returned to Broken Hill in 1927 where he resumed his work as a fireman.

In 1929 he married Jean Isobel Glenn and they lived in South Broken Hill until he transferred to the fire station at South Bankstown where he served for twenty years. Upon retirement they moved to Umina where they lived until his death in 1979.

Notes

  1. ^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. ^ "MORE PERMIT APPLICATIONS". The Argus. Melbourne: National Library of Australia. 6 May 1926. p. 18.
  3. ^ "POOR GAME AT NORTH MELBOURNE". The Argus. Melbourne: National Library of Australia. 10 May 1926. p. 18.