Australian rules footballer
Australian rules footballer
Maurie Sankey |
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Full name |
Maurice Graham Sankey |
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Date of birth |
(1940-02-09)9 February 1940 |
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Place of birth |
Tasmania |
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Date of death |
21 November 1965(1965-11-21) (aged 25) |
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Place of death |
Wangaratta, Victoria |
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Original team(s) |
Latrobe |
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Height |
193 cm (6 ft 4 in) |
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Weight |
87 kg (192 lb) |
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Position(s) |
Ruckman |
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Years |
Club |
Games (Goals) |
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1959–1965 |
Carlton |
100 (61) |
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1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1965. |
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com |
Maurice Graham Sankey (9 February 1940 – 21 November 1965) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]
Sankey was from Tasmania and played his early football at Latrobe. A ruckman, he participated in Carlton's 1959 Preliminary Final loss to Essendon in just his third VFL appearance. He would later, in 1962, get to play in a Grand Final but again it was in a losing team, with Essendon victors.
He became club vice-captain in 1964 and brought up his 100th league match the following season.
On 21 November 1965, Sankey was killed when his car was involved in a head-on collision near Wangaratta.[2] He was buried in Springvale Cemetery.[3]
Maurice Sankey was posthumously inducted into the Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame on 23 June 2018.[4]
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