Peter Thompson (rugby union, born 1929)
| Full name | Peter Humphrey Thompson | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 18 January 1929 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Scarborough, England | ||||||||||||||||
| School | Leeds Grammar School | ||||||||||||||||
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Peter Humphrey Thompson (born 18 January 1929) is an English former international rugby union player.
Thompson was born in Scarborough and educated at Leeds Grammar School.[1]
A winger, Thompson played his rugby for Headingley and Waterloo.[2]
Thompson was capped 17 times playing with England during the late 1950s. He appeared in all four of England's 1957 Five Nations matches, scoring a try against Scotland in the final fixture, to help secure a grand slam.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Schoolboy County Match at Waterloo". Weekly Examiner. 4 January 1947.
- ^ "Sporting Bygones: White Rose greats who were allowed to show their pride". The Yorkshire Post. 8 March 2010.
- ^ "We Have Greatest Team In The World". Daily Mirror. 18 March 1957.
External links
[edit]- Peter Thompson at ESPNscrum
- Peter Thompson at England Rugby