Tom Meehan
Personal information
Full name Thomas Francis Meehan
Date of birth (1926-03-31)31 March 1926
Date of death 19 October 2018(2018-10-19) (aged 92)
Original team(s) St Kilda CYMS
Height 184 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 78 kg (172 lb)
Position(s) Defender
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1947–52 St Kilda 73 (3)
1953–54 Fitzroy 19 (0)
Total 92 (3)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1954.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Thomas Francis Meehan (31 March 1926 – 19 October 2018[1]) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda and Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[2] He later played with Brighton in the Victorian Football Association.

He served in the RAAF during the Second World War.[3]

He married Esme Hoinville at Gardenvale in September 1949.[4]

Tom Meehan of St Kilda and Jack Dyer of Richmond in a VFL match in 1949

He is depicted competing for a mark with Essendon player John Coleman in a bronze statue that was unveiled in 2006 outside the public library at Hastings, Victoria.[5] He also appears in an iconic often-reproduced photograph with Jack Dyer of Richmond.[6]

Notes

  1. ↑ "Meehan, Thomas Francis Death Notice". Weekly Times. Retrieved 8 August 2020.
  2. ↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 602. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  3. ↑ World War Two Service - "MEEHAN, THOMAS FRANCIS", Dept of Veterans' Affairs, Government of Australia
  4. ↑ "Full-back marries", The Herald, 17 September 1949, p.3
  5. ↑ "John Coleman Statue, Hastings", Mornington Peninsula Street and Public Art, Melbourne Playgrounds. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
  6. ↑ Russell Holmesby, "Tom's niche of fame", Together we rise, St Kilda Football Club, 7 November 2018


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