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Maurie Sankey

Maurie Sankey

Australian rules footballer

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]

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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]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Melbourne, Victoria: Bas Publishing. p. 785. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. [2]
    "Blues will honor team mate". The Age. Melbourne, Victoria. 23 November 1965. p. 24.
  3. [3]
    "Maurice Graham Sankey". Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust.
  4. [4]
    "Maurie Sankey". Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame.

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