Thomas Leo McInerney (24 April 1898 – 29 December 1963) was an

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

er who played for

Essendon Essendon may refer to: Australia *Essendon, Victoria **Essendon railway station **Essendon Airport *Essendon Football Club, in the Australian Football League *Electoral district of Essendon *Electoral district of Essendon and Flemington United Kin ...

in the

Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition. It includes teams from clubs based in east ...

(VFL). McInerney was one of six Essendon players to debut against Richmond in the opening round of the

1918 VFL season The 1918 VFL season was the 22nd season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. Played during the final year of World War I, eight of the league's nine clubs featured i ...

and kicked the only two goals of his VFL career. During the 1920s, he played in the VFA at Brunswick and was an important member of their 1925 premiership success with 79 goals for the year. That was enough to top the league's goal-kicking, as was his tally of 84 goals in 1929.

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Leo McInerney's playing statistics
from The VFA Project 1898 births Essendon Football Club players Brunswick Football Club players Australian rules footballers from Melbourne 1963 deaths People from Carlton, Victoria 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1898-stub