[1] His brother, Edwin (known as ‘Teddy’) and other members of the Rankin family also played for Geelong.

[2] Rankin got off to a promising start in the 1904 and early 1905 seasons, but his career was compromised by serious injuries to his knee and kidney sustained during a match in May 1905.

[3] He married Adeline Harrison and raised a family of ten children.

After football, he remained in Geelong where he worked as a gardener and greenkeeper.

This Australian rules football biography of a person born in 1881 is a stub.