Australian Football

Hard working and tough as nails, with an excellent leap, ruckman Tom Davis was the only Perth player to feature in both the club’s 1955 and 1966 premiership teams. Indeed, his 220-game, 129-goal league career ran between the two years in question, ending with an appearance as 19th man in the 1966 Grand Final defeat of East Perth. A Western Australian interstate representative on a couple of occasions, he was perhaps overshadowed during his career by the likes of Farmer, Clarke, Foley and Slater, but opponents underestimated him at their peril.

Author - John Devaney