Tom Vallance
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Thomas Vallance | ||
| Date of birth | 27 May 1856 | ||
| Place of birth | Succoth Farm, Renton, Scotland | ||
| Date of death | 16 February 1935 (aged 78) | ||
| Place of death | Glasgow, Scotland | ||
| Position(s) | Right-back | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1874-1882 | Rangers | ||
| 1884 | Rangers | ||
| International career | |||
| 1877-1881 | Scotland | 7 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Tom Vallance (27 May 1856 – 16 February 1935) was a Scottish footballer. Vallance was the first in a long line of inspirational Rangers captains. He made 38 Scottish Cup appearances for the club.
Football
Before football, Vallance was a rower. He is noted as been abnormally tall for the times but was only around six feet two inches. He played at right-back for Rangers from 1874 to 1882. He left Scotland on 22 February 1882 to take a position in Calcutta. He embarked on a career in the tea plantations of Assam but returned after a year suffering from blackwater fever.[1]
Vallance was also capped at international level, making seven appearances for Scotland.
After football
He was a successful restaurateur, a poet and an artist, whose paintings were displayed by the Scottish Academy. Reference has been made to a family connection to Sir Stanley Matthews, but this proved not to be the case.
References
- ^ "Rangers: The forgotten history" Herald (20 August 2009)