[1] Sankey was from Tasmania and played his early football at Latrobe.
A ruckman, he participated in Carlton's 1959 Preliminary Final loss to Essendon in just his third VFL appearance.
He would later, in 1962, get to play in a Grand Final but again it was in a losing team, with Essendon victors.
On 21 November 1965, Sankey was killed when his car was involved in a head-on collision near Wangaratta.
[3] Maurice Sankey was posthumously inducted into the Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame on 23 June 2018.