Tom Vallance

{{short description|Scottish footballer}}

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{{Infobox football biography

| name = Tom Vallance

|image = Rangers FC team 1877 (Vallance).jpg

| fullname = Thomas Vallance

| birth_date = {{birth date|1856|5|27|df=y}}

| birth_place = Renton, Scotland

| death_date = {{death date and age|1935|2|16|1856|5|27|df=y}}

| death_place = Glasgow, Scotland

| height =

| position = Right-back

| years1 = 1874–1882

| years2 = 1884

| clubs1 = Rangers

| clubs2 = Rangers

| caps1 =

| goals1 =

| nationalyears1 = 1877–1881

| nationalteam1 = Scotland

| nationalcaps1 = 7

| nationalgoals1 = 0

}}

Thomas Vallance (27 May 1856 – 16 February 1935) was a Scottish footballer. He made 38 Scottish Cup appearances for the Rangers club.

Football

Before football, Vallance was a rower. He was noted as being abnormally tall for the times but was only around six feet two inches. He played at right-back for the Rangers from 1874 to 1882. He left Scotland on 22 February 1882 to take a position in Calcutta. He embarked on a career in the tea plantations of Assam but returned after a year suffering from blackwater fever.[http://www.heraldscotland.com/rangers-the-forgotten-history-1.916995 "Rangers: The forgotten history"] Herald (20 August 2009)

Vallance was also capped at international level, making seven appearances for Scotland between 1877 and 1881.{{SFA Profile|id=113507}}

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