Thomas Alexander Hugh McFarlane (2 May 1887 – 1 November 1952) was an Australian rules footballer who played for .
Football
McFarlane debuted for Port Adelaide during the
1909 SAFL season. He would captain the club in the South Australian Football League seasons immediately before and after
World War I
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.
Personal life
McFarlane was the 15th child of Alexander Macfarlane, an immigrant from
Scotland
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, and Mary Ann Tyzack who was born in
Port Adelaide
Port Adelaide is a port-side region of Adelaide, approximately northwest of the Adelaide city centre, Adelaide CBD. It is also the namesake of the City of Port Adelaide Enfield council, a suburb, a federal and state electoral division and is t ...
.
His uncle, Samuel Tyzack, was a foundation player for Port Adelaide in 1870.
Alex was the uncle of Bill McFarlane who played over 100 games for Port Adelaide during the 1940s.
He married Olive May Hobbs on 18 December 1911 at St. Aiden’s Church, Marden South Australia.
Olive and Alex had seven children. Alexander Steer McFarlane 1913; Daphne May McFarlane (1914-1917); Ronald George McFarlane 1916; Olive Valerie McFarlane 1917; Harold McFarlane (1919-1921); Kenneth Malcom 1924; and Joan Louise McFarlane 1925.
Death
Alex McFarlane died in
Alice Springs
Alice Springs () is a town in the Northern Territory, Australia; it is the third-largest settlement after Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin and Palmerston, Northern Territory, Palmerston. The name Alice Springs was given by surveyor William ...
on 1 November 1952.
Reputation
Tom Leahy described him as being "Tremendously strong, played very fairly, but very hard. I was against him many times, and he was a tough man to beat."
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References
Australian people of Scottish descent
Port Adelaide Football Club (SANFL) players
Port Adelaide Football Club players (all competitions)
1887 births
1952 deaths
Australian rules footballers from South Australia
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