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Tom Marinko

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Tom Marinko WAFL football card 1961
Tom Marinko write-up from St Kilda Football Club publication in 1965

Thomas "Tom" Marinko
Personal information
Full name Thomas Keith Marinko
Date of birth (1941-08-03)3 August 1941
Place of birth Perth, Western Australia
Date of death 12 July 1981(1981-07-12) (aged 39)
Place of death Dingley Village, Victoria
Original team(s) West Perth
Height 193 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Weight 94 kg (207 lb)
Position(s) Ruck / defence
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1960–61 West Perth 18 (2)
1964–65 St Kilda 12 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1965.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Thomas Keith Marinko (3 August 1941 – 12 July 1981) was an Australian rules footballer who played with West Perth, 1960 – 61[1] in the West Australian Football League and, after waiting two years to be cleared on transfer, St Kilda, 1964 – 65, in the Victorian Football League.[2]

Played in the Victorian Football Association, with Prahran Football Club 1968 – 72, kicking two goals in the 1970 premiership winning team,[3] also that year received the Allan Marshall Memorial Award for Best Clubman. He played one season for Box Hill in 1976.[4]

Notes

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  1. ^ "WAFL FootyFacts – MARINKO, Thomas Keith (Tom)". waflfootyfacts.net. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
  2. ^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 551. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  3. ^ "Premierships in Reflection". Prahran Football Club. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
  4. ^ "The VFA Project". thevfaproject.org. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
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