Tom McCluskey
Thomas Miller "Tammas" McCluskey was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton and Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League, and with Footscray in the Victorian Football Association.
Family
The son of Thomas Miller McCluskey, and Jessie Blair McCluskey, née Bell, Thomas Miller McCluskey, known to his family as "Tammas", was born in Kyabram, on 31 August 1890.Football
Carlton (VFL)
A half-back flanker, McCluskey was recruited from Shepparton Football Club, by the Carlton Secretary, Arthur Ford, who, having been alerted to the potential of McCluskey, had gone to see a match between Tatura and Shepparton on Wednesday 24 August 1910, and was so impressed that he immediately signed up both Shepparton's McClusky and Tatura's Archie Wilson.Wilson and McClusky both made their debut for Carlton against Richmond, at Princes Park, on the following Saturday, [27 August 1910], and both played for the Carlton First XVIII that lost to Collingwood in the 1910 Grand Final, which was the last of McCluskey's four senior games for Carlton.