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}}
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
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{{Rangers F.C. Hall of Fame}}
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Category:Scottish men's footballers
Category:Scotland men's international footballers
Category:Men's association football fullbacks
Category:Footballers from Renton, West Dunbartonshire
Category:19th-century Scottish sportsmen
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