Teddy Rankin

Teddy Rankin

Infobox afl player | firstname = Teddy
lastname = Rankin




birthdate = 11 March 1872
birthplace =
originalteam = Riversdale
heightweight = 178 cm / 74 kg
dead =
deathdate =
deathplace =
debutdate = 1897
debutteam = Geelong
debutopponent =
debutstadium =
playingteams = Geelong (1897) (1899-1910)
* 180 games, 35 goals
coach =
coachingteams =
statsend = 1910
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Edward 'Teddy' Rankin (born 11 March 1872) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the VFL. His sons Cliff and Bert both also had successful careers with the club.

A rover, Rankin was a member of the inaugural Geelong VFL side in 1897. He didn't play at all in 1898 due to typhoid but returned to the side the following season and appeared in every season until his retirement in 1910, by then in the backlines. In 1903 he won the Carji Greeves Medal for Geelong's best and fairest player. During the 1903 season he had become the first ever Geelong player to play 100 games and he is also credited as being the first player in the league to use the practice of touching the ball on the ground as oppose to bouncing it. He had used it during a wet game in the 1890s.

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