yearastart death_date teama fieldgoalsa birth_date tries yearstart triesb appearances pointsa goals club fieldgoals yearbstart points name fullname birth_place yearend teamb pointsb appearancesa appearancesb position goalsa goalsb fieldgoalsb triesa article_title
1951 19 july 2011 great britain 0 12 july 1926 9 55 0 1948 1953 1960 0 96 192 2 0 0 0 0 hunslet workington town barrow 0 0 0 1951 27 165 0 cec thompson theodore cecil thompson durham , england 53 60 62 british empire xiii 0 2 2 wg , sr , lf-lk 0 0 0 0 cec thompson

cec thompson

cec thompson -lrb- 12 july 1926 -- 19 july 2011 -rrb- was a british professional rugby league footballer of the 1940s , '50s and '60s .
he was born in county durham , the son of a mother from durham and a trinidadian father .
his father died when he was very young and his childhood was spent in a succession of orphanages .
thompson took up rugby league when working near hunslet .
he turned out to have a natural talent for the game .
he went on to play for great britain and ireland and was transferred to workington town in cumbria after which he was manager of barrow .
all of thompson 's games for hunslet and in representative matches were as a second-row forward .
for workington he played 164 games at second-row , twenty-two at loose forward , and six on the wing .
cec thompson played right - , i.e. number 12 , in workington town 's 9 -- 13 defeat by wigan in the 1958 challenge cup final during the 1957 -- 58 season at wembley stadium , london on saturday 10 may 1958 .
at barrow , with the side plagued by injury , he played two games as a second-row against bramley and blackpool borough , to make up the numbers .
he was one of the founders of the student rugby league in the united kingdom , when along with andrew cudbertson and jack abernathy , he founded a team at the university of leeds in 1967 .
thompson built up his own window cleaning business , and then qualified to teach economics with a degree from the university of leeds and a teaching diploma at the age of 39 , initially at dinnington comprehensive school and then at chesterfield grammar school .
