Joe Thompson

Who was Joe Thompson?

Joseph "Joe" Francis Thompson was an English born Welsh dual-code international rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1910s, '20s and '30s, playing representative level rugby union for Wales, and at club level for Cross Keys RFC, as a Number Eight, and playing representative level rugby league for Great Britain, Wales, and Other Nationalities, and at club level for Leeds, as a Prop, Second-row, or Loose forward/Lock, i.e. number 8 or 10, 11 or 12, or 13, during the contested scrums.

In 1923, aged 20, Joe Thompson became a Dual-code rugby international, first playing in the Wales team at Twickenham Stadium and later that year for Wales in the rugby league international at the Fartown Ground, Huddersfield.