Tom Dowling is a former rugby league

Rugby league

Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...

 footballer. He played in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership for the Eastern Suburbs

Sydney Roosters

The Sydney Roosters are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. The club competes in the National Rugby League and is one of the oldest and most successful clubs in Australian rugby league history, having won twelve New South Wales Rugby League...

 club.

Dowling was a fullback

Rugby league positions

A rugby league football team consists of thirteen players on the field, with four substitutes on the bench. Players are divided into two general categories: "forwards" and "backs"....

 in the champion Eastern Suburbs

Sydney Roosters

The Sydney Roosters are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. The club competes in the National Rugby League and is one of the oldest and most successful clubs in Australian rugby league history, having won twelve New South Wales Rugby League...

 sides of the 1930's. Dowling played 66 matches for the club in the years (1933-37). Dowling won premierships with the club in 1935

New South Wales Rugby Football League season 1935

The 1935 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the twenty-eighth season of Sydney's top-grade rugby league football club competition, Australia's first...

, 1936

New South Wales Rugby Football League season 1936

The 1936 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the twenty-ninth season of Sydney's top-level rugby league football club competition, Australia's first...

 and 1937

New South Wales Rugby Football League season 1937

The 1937 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the thirtieth season of the Sydney, New South Wales-based top-grade rugby league football club competition, Australia's first...

 as well as being a runner up in the 1934 premiership decider

New South Wales Rugby Football League season 1934

The 1934 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the twenty-sixth season of Sydney's top-grade rugby league football club competition, Australia's first...

. The fullback is recognised as the 224th player to wear the red, white and blue of Eastern Suburbs.