Tom Outridge, Sr.

Tom Outridge
Personal information
Full name	Thomas Outridge
Date of birth	(1898-09-20)20 September 1898
Place of birth	Ballarat East, Victoria
Date of death	27 September 1973(1973-09-27) (aged 75)
Place of death	Perth, Western Australia
Original team(s)	Coolgardie H-Company Cadets (GCA)
Height	6 ft 0.5 in (184 cm)
Weight	190 lb (86 kg)
Position(s)	Ruckman
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
unknown	Mines Rovers	unknown
1916–18	Perth	33 (unknown)
1919–31	Subiaco	168 (unknown)
Representative team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
1921–30	Western Australia	27 (30)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1931.
Career highlights
Mines Rovers premiership side 1915 Subiaco captain 1920, 1927, 1929 Sandover Medal 1921 Subiaco best and fairest 1921, 1922 Subiaco premiership side 1924 Western Australia captain 1930 Subiaco life member (1935) West Australian Football League life member (1956) West Australian Football Hall of Fame (2004) Subiaco Team of the Century (2008)

Thomas "Tom" Outridge (20 September 1898 – 27 September 1973) was an Australian rules football player and administrator. Originally from Ballarat, Victoria, he played 217 games for Perth and Subiaco in the West Australian Football League (WAFL), and also represented Western Australia in 27 interstate matches, captaining the side at the 1930 Australian National Football Carnival. Outridge was also the winner of the inaugural Sandover Medal, in 1921. After his retirement, he served as secretary and later president of the Subiaco Football Club, and also as a commentator. In 2004, Outridge was inducted into the West Australian Football Hall of Fame.

Outridge was born in Ballarat East, Victoria, to Henry Joseph and Hannah Elizabeth (née Rutherford) Outridge. His father had played for both Ballarat Imperials and South Ballarat in the Ballarat Football League, captaining the latter side. He and his family moved to Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia in 1903, living first in Coolgardie, and then in Kunanalling, where his father opened a mine, the Shamrock. Outridge began playing football for the Coolgardie H-Company Cadets in the Goldfields Cadets Association. In 1914, he progressed to the Mines Rovers Football Club in the senior Goldfields Football League (GFL), and played in the club's 1915 premiership win over Boulder City. After two seasons playing in Coolgardie, he was recruited by the Perth Football Club in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) in Perth. In 1919, after three seasons and 33 games with the club, Outridge received a transfer to Subiaco at the urging of Eddie du Feu, a Subiaco player.