Tom Ezart
{{Short description|Australian rugby league player}}
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{{Use Australian English|date=March 2015}}
{{Infobox rugby league biography
|name = Tom Ezart
|fullname = Thomas Robert Ezart
|image =
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|birth_date = {{birth date|1914|09|18|df=y}}
|birth_place = Port Kembla, New South Wales, Australia
|death_date = {{death date and age|1977|05|23|1914|09|18|df=y}}
|death_place = Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
|height =
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|position = {{Rlp|FE}}
|club1 = {{nowrap|Canterbury-Bankstown}}
|year1start = 1942
|year1end = 49
|appearances1 = 17
|tries1 = 4
|goals1 = 0
|fieldgoals1 = 0
|points1 = 12
|source = [http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/players/Tom_Ezart/summary.html Rugby League Project] and [http://www.yesterdayshero.com.au/PlayerProfile_Tom-Ezart_2049.aspx Yesterday's Hero]
}}
Thomas Robert Ezart (1914-1977) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s. He played his football in Country New South Wales as well as in Sydney at the Canterbury-Bankstown club with whom he won the 1942 NSWRFL Premiership .
Playing career
A Port Kembla junior,{{cite web|title=Tom Ezart|url=http://thebulldogs.com.au/sportal.php?page=player&id=81|website=thebulldogs.com.au|publisher=Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs|accessdate=22 September 2014}} Ezart played representative football for the Illawarra Rugby League before moving to Sydney and joining the eight-year-old Canterbury-Bankstown club in 1942 and that year helping them to their second premiership. Military service for World War II curtailed his football career, but he resumed playing and coaching in Wollongong and was selected to captain an Illawarra representative team against the visiting 1946 Great Britain Lions.{{cite web|last1=Alan Whiticker|author-link=Alan Whiticker|title=Tom Ezart|url=http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/players/tom-ezart/summary.html|website=rugbyleagueproject.org|publisher=Shawn Dollin, Andrew Ferguson and Bill Bates|accessdate=22 September 2014}} Ezart also made a brief reappearance with the Canterbury-Bankstown club during the 1949 NSWRFL season before retiring from first grade rugby league.Alan Whiticker/Glen Hudson: The Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players - 1995 edition ({{ISBN|1 87516957 1}})
Post playing
He later became a referee and a Canterbury club selector.
On 12 February 1968, Ezart was elected as one of the Australian national team selectors for the upcoming 1968 World Cup campaign.{{cite news|title=New R.L. selectors chosen|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19680213&id=WsBWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YecDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1025,3724877|accessdate=22 September 2014|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=13 February 1968}}
Ezart died on 23 May 1977.Sydney Morning Herald - Death Notice - 24/05/1977
Ezrt was a life member of the Illawarra Rugby League,{{cite web|title=Illawarra District Rugby League Life Members|url=http://www.foxsportspulse.com/assoc_page.cgi?c=0-2373-0-0-0&sID=40040|website=foxsportspulse.com|publisher=Illawarra Division Rugby League Inc|accessdate=22 September 2014}} and in 2011, the centenary year of the League, he was one of the nominees for the {{rlp|fe}} position in the Illawarra team of the century,{{cite news|title=Pivotal performers|url=http://newsstore.fairfax.com.au/apps/viewDocument.ac;jsessionid=F6FDB644ABD0D6D5AA7011058AFA8B3B?sy=afr&pb=all_ffx&dt=selectRange&dr=1month&so=relevance&sf=text&sf=headline&rc=10&rm=200&sp=brs&cls=2109&clsPage=1&docID=ILL110630BA2IM26L51K|accessdate=22 September 2014|work=Illawarra Mercury|publisher=Fairfax Media|date=30 June 2011}} but eventually was overlooked in favour of Bob Fulton.
References
{{Reflist}}
{{Canterbury-Bankstown squad - 1942 NSWRFL premiers}}
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Category:Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs players
Category:Australian rugby league players
Category:Rugby league five-eighths
Category:Rugby league players from Port Kembla, New South Wales
Category:20th-century Australian sportsmen
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