Alb Thomas

{{Short description|Australian rules footballer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2016}}

{{Use Australian English|date=July 2016}}

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| name = Alb Thomas

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| fullname = Alban Howell Causse Thomas

| birth_date = {{birth date|1872|02|09|df=y}}

| birth_place = Emerald Hill

| death_date = {{death date and age|1957|11|04|1872|02|09|df=y}}

| death_place = Ascot Vale, Victoria

| originalteam = Albert Park

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| statsend = 1897

| years1 = 1897

| club1 = {{AFL SM}}

| games_goals1 = 1 (0)

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Alban Howell Causse Thomas (9 February 1872 – 4 November 1957) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the South Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).{{cite book |title=The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 |last=Holmesby|first=Russell|last2=Main|first2=Jim |year=2014 |edition=10th |isbn=978-1-921496-32-5 |publisher=BAS Publishing |location=Seaford, Victoria |page=875}}{{cite news |date=17 May 1897 |title=Improvement in Carlton. |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article9156589 |accessdate=4 May 2024 |newspaper=The Argus (Melbourne) |location=Victoria, Australia |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia |issue=15,873}}{{cite news |date=1 May 1897 |title=South Melbourne. |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article241116880 |accessdate=4 May 2024 |newspaper=The Herald |location=Victoria, Australia |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia |issue=5241}}{{cite news |date=22 May 1897 |title=Football. |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article221130308 |accessdate=4 May 2024 |newspaper=Weekly Times |location=Victoria, Australia |page=24 |via=National Library of Australia |issue=1,450}}{{cite news |date=10 June 1897 |title=Football. |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article190654229 |accessdate=4 May 2024 |newspaper=The Age |location=Victoria, Australia |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia |issue=13,190}}{{cite news |date=27 March 1897 |title=Albert Park Football Club. |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article108482206 |accessdate=4 May 2024 |newspaper=The Record |location=Victoria, Australia |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia |volume=III |issue=1}}{{cite news |date=10 September 1896 |title=Albert Park Football Club. |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article174608224 |accessdate=4 May 2024 |newspaper=Melbourne Punch |location=Victoria, Australia |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia |volume=}}{{cite news |date=23 April 1897 |title=Football. |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article106839977 |accessdate=4 May 2024 |newspaper=North Melbourne Gazette |location=Victoria, Australia |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia |volume=III |issue=47}} Thomas was recruited to South Melbourne at the beginning of the 1897 VFL season along with his brother Gilligan. They had both played for Albert Park in the Victorian Junior Football Association (VJFA) the season prior and won the VJFA premiership that year.{{cite news |last1=Kickero |title=South Melbourne |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/241116880 |access-date=17 November 2023 |work=The Herald |date=1 May 1897 |page=3}}