Tommy Smyth (rugby union) explained

Tommy Smyth
Birth Name:Tommy Smyth[1]
Birth Date:1884 12, df=y
Birth Place:Belfast, Ireland
Death Place:Paddington, England
Position:Prop
Amatyears1:?-1908
Amatyears2:1908-1910
Amatyears3:1910-?
Amatyears4:1910-1911
Amatteam1:Malone RFC
Amatteam2:Newport RFC
Amatteam3:Malone RFC
Amatteam4:Barbarian F.C.
Repteam1:Ireland
Repteam2:British Isles
Repyears1:1908-1912
Repyears2:1910
Repcaps1:14
Repcaps2:2
Reppoints1:6
Reppoints2:0
Occupation:Doctor
School:Ballymena Academy

Thomas Smyth (1 December 1884 – 19 May 1928) was an Irish international, rugby union prop forward who played club rugby for Newport and Malone and invitational rugby with the Barbarians. He won fourteen caps for Ireland and was selected to captain the British Isles 1910 tour of South Africa, and played in two of the test games.

Rugby career

Smyth first played for Ireland in 1908, in the Home Nations Championship against England at Richmond's Athletic Ground. Although Ireland lost the match 13-3 Smyth was back for the next game of the tournament against Scotland. With the match played at Lansdowne Road, the Irish beat the Scottish team in a game which was notable as the last game for Scotland's David Bedell-Sivright, the British Isle's captain of the 1904 campaign to Australia and New Zealand. Smyth played out the 1909 and 1910 Championships and scored his first international try in the 1910 game against France. Smyth's next and last score for his country was in a 3–0 win at Lansdowne road versus England, when the Harlequin centre Frank Stoop's poor clearing kick led to Smyth scoring the only points of the game when he took the ball over the line for a try.

International matches played

Ireland

British Isles

Notes and References

  1. http://www.blackandambers.co.uk/Personnel.aspx?pr=107288 Newport RFC player profile