Tom Wills

thumb Thomas Wentworth "Tom" Wills (19 August 1835 - 2 May 1880) was Australia's first cricketer of renown and a co-founder of Australian rules football. Quotes Now that cricket has been put aside for some few months to come, and cricketers have assumed somewhat of the chrysalis nature (for a time only 'tis true), but at length again will burst forth in all their varied hues, rather than allow this state of torpor to creep over them, and stifle their new supple limbs, why can they not, I say, form a foot-ball club, and form a committee of three or more to draw up a code of laws? If a club of this sort were got up, it would be of vast benefit to any cricket-ground to be trampled upon, and would make the turf quite firm and durable; besides which it would keep those who are inclined to become stout from having their joints encased in useless superabundant flesh. From a public letter titled "Winter Practice", published in Bell's Life in Victoria and Sporting Chronicle, 10 July 1858. External links Category:Cricketers from Australia Category:Sportspeople from New South Wales Category:1835 births Category:1880 deaths