Maurie Sankey | |
Fullname: | Maurice Graham Sankey |
Birth Date: | 9 February 1940 |
Birth Place: | Tasmania |
Death Place: | Wangaratta, Victoria |
Originalteam: | Latrobe |
Height: | 193 cm |
Weight: | 87 kg |
Position: | Ruckman |
Statsend: | 1965 |
Years1: | 1959–1965 |
Club1: | Carlton |
Games Goals1: | 100 (61) |
Maurice Graham Sankey (9 February 1940 – 21 November 1965) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Sankey was from Tasmania and played his early football at Latrobe. A ruckman, he participated in Carlton's 1959 Preliminary Final loss to Essendon in just his third VFL appearance. He would later, in 1962, get to play in a Grand Final but again it was in a losing team, with Essendon victors.
He became club vice-captain in 1964 and brought up his 100th league match the following season.
On 21 November 1965, Sankey was killed when his car was involved in a head-on collision near Wangaratta.[1] He was buried in Springvale Cemetery.[2]
Maurice Sankey was posthumously inducted into the Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame on 23 June 2018.[3]