| Full name | Peter Humphrey Thompson | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1929-01-18) 18 January 1929 (age 95) | ||||||||||||||||
| 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.
A winger, Thompson played his rugby for Headingley and Waterloo.
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.
See also
References
- "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
- Peter Thompson at ESPNscrum
- Peter Thompson at England Rugby