Tom Bush (Australian footballer)

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Tom Bush
Personal information
Full name Tom Bush
Date of birth (1918-01-07)7 January 1918
Date of death 17 November 1951(1951-11-17) (aged 33)
Original team(s) Berrigan
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1942, 1944 Melbourne 5 (2)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1944.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Tom Bush (7 January 1918 – 17 November 1951)[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[2]

Bush, who was originally from Berrigan[3] was cleared from St. Kilda[4] to Melbourne where he played from 1942 to 1944.

Bush played one game on permit with Coburg in 1945.[5]

Bush then played with Wangaratta in the Ovens & Murray Football League in 1945 and 1946.[6]

Milawa Football Club appointed Bush as captain-coach in 1947 and 1948. They were runners up in the Ovens & King Football League grand final to Moyhu in 1947.[7]

In his first year as coach of Peechelba Football Club in 1949 in the Murray Valley Football League, Bush won the league best and fairest award.[8]

Notes[]

  1. ^ "Tom Bush - Player Bio". Australian Football. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
  2. ^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2009). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (8th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 113. ISBN 978-1-921496-00-4.
  3. ^ "1942 - Training Lists". The Argus. 4 May 1942. p. 6. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  4. ^ "1942 - Melbourne Difficulties". The Argus. 25 May 1942. p. 6. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
  5. ^ "The VFA Project". The VFA Project. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
  6. ^ "1949 - Best & Fairest". Border Morning Mail (Albury, NSW). 2 September 1949. p. 15. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
  7. ^ "1947 - O&KFNL Grand Finals". Ovens & King FNL. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
  8. ^ "1949 - Receives best & fairest trophy". Border Morning Mail (Albury, NSW). 19 September 1949. p. 15. Retrieved 1 August 2021.

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