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Australian rules footballer

Mark Tandy
Personal information
Full name	Mark Henry Tandy
Date of birth	(1892-09-03)3 September 1892
Place of birth	Newport, Victoria
Date of death	19 May 1965(1965-05-19) (aged 72)
Place of death	South Melbourne, Victoria
Original team(s)	Yarraville (VJFA)
Height	173 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	70 kg (154 lb)
Playing career
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1911–1926	South Melbourne	207 (47)
Playing statistics correct to the end of 1926.
Career highlights
South Melbourne captain 1922 South Melbourne premiership 1918 South Melbourne/Sydney Swans Team of the Century Victorian representative (13 matches, 8 goals)
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Mark Henry "Napper" Tandy (3 September 1892 – 19 May 1965) was an Australian rules footballer in the (then) Victorian Football League in the early 20th century.

Family

The son of Henry Thomas Tandy, and Catherine Lucy Tandy (1860–1945), née Williams, Mark Henry Tandy was born in Newport, Victoria on 3 September 1892.

He married Lily Ford in 1917.

Football

His quiet and easy-going nature led to Roy Cazaly calling him "Napper" – "the inglorious nickname "Napper" ... apparently arose because of his alleged propensity for "switching off" during games" (John Devaney, Full Points Footy Publications).

A supremely accomplished rover/wingman who, along with Roy Cazaly, tore the heart out of the opposition. Playing as a wingman early in his career, he brought South Melbourne their second premiership in the 1918 Grand Final. With South trailing by a point, Tandy made an inspired run down the wing to deliver the ball into the forward lines where Laird kicked the winning goal.

Team of the Century

On 8 August 2003, he was selected as an interchange in the Sydney Swans "Team of the Century".

Hall of Fame

One of the initial 136 inductees, Tandy was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996.

Footnotes

Holmesby & Main (2014), p.567.
Deaths: Tandy, The Age, (Wednesday, 21 March 1945), p.6.
Mother of Ex-League Champion Dies: Mrs. T. Tandy, of Yarraville, The (Emerald Hill) Record, (Saturday, 24 March 1945), p.3.
While the nickname "Napper" may well have been bestowed upon him because of his propensity for "switching off", it's most likely that the connection between "Napper" and "Tandy" was already strongly suggested by the earlier James Napper Tandy, in the same way that Carlton's Fred Elliott's nickname of "Pompey" was suggested by Major General Harold "Pompey" Elliott, etc.
Ross, John (1999). The Australian Football Hall of Fame. Australia: HarperCollinsPublishers. p. 123. ISBN 0-7322-6426-X.

References

Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: Every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Melbourne, Victoria: Bas Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
Ross, J. (ed), 100 Years of Australian Football 1897–1996: The Complete Story of the AFL, All the Big Stories, All the Great Pictures, All the Champions, Every AFL Season Reported, Viking, (Ringwood), 1996. ISBN 0-670-86814-0

External links

Mark Tandy's playing statistics from AFL Tables
Mark Tandy at AustralianFootball.com
Mark Tandy, at Boyles Football Photos.
AFL Hall of Fame

v t e South Melbourne Football Club 1918 VFL premiers
South Melbourne 9.8 (62) defeated Collingwood 7.15 (57), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
2. Belcher 4. Barber 6. Caldwell (c) 8. Doherty 9. Daly 12. Graham 14. Howell 16. Hynes 17. Laird 20. O'Halloran 22. Rademacher 23. Robertson 24. Ryan 26. Skehan 27. Tandy 29. Turner 30. Wood 32. O'Donoghue
Coaches: Elms Howson

v t e Captains of the South Melbourne Football Club/Sydney Swans
VFL/AFL	1897–1898: Fraser 1899: Adamson 1900: Windley 1901: Trim 1902: Windley 1903: Fogarty 1904–1905: McGee 1906: Howson 1907–1908: Dolphin 1909: Ricketts 1910–1911: Thomas 1912: Ricketts 1913: H. Kelly 1914–1915; 1917:* Belcher 1918–1919: Caldwell 1920: Belcher 1921: Willis 1922: Tandy 1923–1925: P. Scanlan 1926–1927: Pannam 1928: J. Scanlan 1929: Stanbridge 1930–1931: J. Scanlan 1932: Leonard 1933–1936: Bisset 1937: Nash 1938–1945: Matthews 1946–1948: Graham 1949: Lucas 1950–1952: Lane 1953–1954: Clegg 1955: Gunn 1956: Gillett 1957–1960: Clegg 1961–1971: Skilton 1972: Rantall 1973–1976: Bedford 1977–1979: Quade 1980–1984: Round 1984–1985: Browning 1986–1992: Carroll 1993–2002: P. Kelly 2003–2005: Maxfield 2006–2007: Hall/Kirk/Barry 2008: Hall/Barry/Bolton 2009–2010: Bolton/Goodes/Kirk 2011–2012: Goodes/McVeigh 2013–2016: Jack/McVeigh 2017–2018: Kennedy 2019–2021: Kennedy/Parker/Rampe 2022–2023: Mills/Parker/Rampe 2024–: Mills
AFLW	2022 (S7): Collier/Lochland/Szigeti 2023–: McEvoy/Molloy
*South Melbourne did not participate in the VFL in 1916 due to World War I

v t e Sydney Swans: Team of the Century
Full-back	John Rantall John Heriot Vic Belcher
Half-back	Bill Faul Ron Clegg Dennis Carroll
Centre	David Murphy Greg Williams Herbie Matthews
Half-forward	Tony Morwood Laurie Nash Gerard Healy
Full-forward	Bob Pratt Tony Lockett Paul Kelly
Ruck	Barry Round Peter Bedford Bob Skilton (c)
Interchange	Bill Williams Stephen Wright Daryn Cresswell Fred Goldsmith Mark Bayes Harry Clarke Mark Tandy
Coach	Jack Bisset

v t e Victorian squad – 1924 Interstate Carnival
Victoria 13.16 (94) defeated Tasmania 7.13 (55), at North Hobart Oval, 7 August 1924, crowd: 8,000 Victoria 15.13 (103) defeated Western Australia 14.11 (95), at North Hobart Oval, 9 August 1924, crowd: 15,687 Victoria 14.26 (110) defeated New South Wales 4.6 (30), at North Hobart Oval, 12 August 1924, crowd: 350 Victoria 17.16 (118) defeated South Australia 9.11 (65), at North Hobart Oval, 15 August 1924, crowd: 12,876
Captain: O'Brien Vice-Captain: Chadwick Beasy Brew Cazaly Cockram Collins Duncan Elliott Fitzmaurice Greeves Hagger McIntosh Moriarty O'Connell Pink Shelton Tandy Taylor Thorp Watson Wigraft Wilson

Victorian squad – 1924 Interstate Carnival

Victoria 13.16 (94) defeated Tasmania 7.13 (55), at North Hobart Oval, 7 August 1924, crowd: 8,000

Victoria 15.13 (103) defeated Western Australia 14.11 (95), at North Hobart Oval, 9 August 1924, crowd: 15,687
Victoria 14.26 (110) defeated New South Wales 4.6 (30), at North Hobart Oval, 12 August 1924, crowd: 350

Victoria 17.16 (118) defeated South Australia 9.11 (65), at North Hobart Oval, 15 August 1924, crowd: 12,876

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