Rugby player
Birth name | Thomas Sydney Griffin | ||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | (1884-02-19)19 February 1884 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Sydney, New South Wales | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 19 December 1950(1950-12-19) (aged 66) | ||||||||||||||||
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Thomas Sydney Griffin (19 February 1884 – 19 December 1950) was an Australian rugby union player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.
Griffin, a hooker, was born in Sydney, New South Wales and claimed a total of six international rugby caps for Australia.
See also
- Rugby union at the 1908 Summer Olympics
- 1912 Australia rugby union tour of Canada and the United States
References
- ^ "Scrum.com player profile of Tom Griffin". Scrum.com. Retrieved 12 July 2010.
- "Tom Griffin". Olympedia. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
- Australian Rugby Team (Touring America), 1912, The Daily Telegraph, (Wednesday, 18 September 1912), p.15.
External links
- Thomas Griffen at databaseOlympics.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 2007-02-16)
- Tom Griffin at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Thomas Griffen at ESPNscrum
- Thomas Griffen at Olympedia
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- Australian rugby union players
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- Rugby union players at the 1908 Summer Olympics
- Olympic rugby union players for Australasia
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- Rugby union players from Sydney
- Rugby union hookers
- New South Wales rugby union team players
- 20th-century Australian sportsmen
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