Les Thomas

Leslie "Les" M. Thomas (birth year unknown) is a Welsh former rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s. He played representative level rugby union (RU) for Wales XV, and at club level for Llanelli RFC, and representative level rugby league (RL) for Great Britain and Wales, and at club level for Oldham, as a second-row, i.e. number 11 or 12, during the era of contested scrums.[1][2]

For other people with the same name, see Leslie Thomas (disambiguation).

Leslie M. Thomas
Personal information
Full nameLeslie M. Thomas
Bornunknown
Wales
Playing information
Rugby union
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
Llanelli RFC
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
Wales XV
Rugby league
PositionSecond-row
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1946–49 Oldham 58 19 17 91
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1947 Wales 5 0 0 0 0
1947 Great Britain 1 0 0 0 0
Source: [1]

International honours

Les Thomas represented Wales XV (RU) while at Oldham (RL) in the 'Victory International' non-Test match(es) between December 1945 and April 1946, and won caps for Wales (RL) while at Oldham in 1947 5-caps, and won a cap for Great Britain (RL) while at Oldham in 1947 New Zealand.[1]

Six rugby league footballers represented Wales XV (RU) while at rugby league clubs, they were; Tyssul Griffiths, Elwyn Gwyther, Gomer Hughes, Hugh Lloyd-Davies, Harold Thomas, and Leslie Thomas.

Gomer Hughes, and Harold Thomas had previously won Wales (RU) caps, but the other footballers hadn't, and having already changed to the rugby league code they were unable to do so, but Tyssul Griffiths, Elwyn Gwyther, Leslie Thomas, did go on to win Wales (RL) caps.

References
  1. "Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org". rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  2. Williams, Graham; Lush, Peter; Farrar, David (2009). The British Rugby League Records Book. London League. pp. 108–114. ISBN 978-1-903659-49-6.
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