Thomas “Tom” Patrick Doyle was born at Chippendale, an inner suburb of Sydney. He was the son of a train driver who tragically died in 1907 while driving his train at Otford on the NSW South Coast.
Thomas Doyle was educated at St Benedict’s school, Chippendale and St Mary’s Cathedral school in Sydney NSW. It was noted that he had played rugby union.
An article from the Sunday Times in January 1914 gives the following summary of Tom Doyle’s football career;
“Mr. T. P. Doyle played up to half a dozen years ago as a First Grade footballer for Sydney District and Eastern Suburbs. Four years ago he was one of the representatives of the Combined Country against the Combined City. This is after he went to Lithgow, where he was first president of the Lithgow Branch of the Federated Iron Workers of Australia.”
