Thomas James Everuss (18 October 1903 – 18 May 1979) 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 with in the

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(VFL).

Early life

The son of Thomas James Everuss (1870–1933), and Margaret Priscilla Eversuss (1874–1943), née Whetter, Thomas James Everuss was born in Broken Hill on 18 October 1903. He married Jean Isobel Glenn (1908-1967), in Broken Hill, on 29 January 1929. They had three children.

Football

After commencing his career with South Broken Hill Football Club, Everuss and his team-mate Lindsay Beck both joined at the start of the

1926 VFL season The 1926 VFL season was the 30th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs and ran from 1 May to 9 October, comprising an 18-matc ...

. He made his debut against North Melbourne in Round 2; he played every game for the remainder of the season.

Fireman

Everuss returned to Broken Hill in September 1926, where he resumed his work as a fireman. He lived in South Broken Hill until he transferred to the fire station at South

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where he served for twenty years. Upon retirement he moved to

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where he lived until his death in 1979.

Death

He died at Umina Beach, New South Wales on 18 May 1979.Deaths: Everuss, ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', (Monday, 21 May 1979), p.19.
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External links

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Thomas James Everuss, at ''New South Wales Australian Football History Society''.
1903 births 1979 deaths Hawthorn Football Club players South Broken Hill Football Club players Australian rules footballers from Broken Hill, New South Wales 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1903-stub