years death_date clubs statsend name birth_date article_title heightweight
1942-1945 1945 '' ` total '' ' 20 may 2010 south melbourne north melbourne 1945 tom crane 21 december 1921 tom crane -lrb- footballer -rrb-
 185 ; kg & nbsp ; cm / 78 & nbsp
tom crane -lrb- footballer -rrb-

tom crane -lrb- 21 december 1921 - 20 may 2010 -rrb- was an australian rules footballer who played with south melbourne and north melbourne in the victorian football league -lrb- vfl -rrb- .
crane , a defender , was never a regular fixture in the south melbourne team , playing just seven games in four seasons at the club .
he crossed to north melbourne during the 1945 vfl season , where his brother jack played .
another brother , len , was a south melbourne and hawthorn footballer .
he joined northcote in 1946 .
