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词条 Duncan Thompson
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Military service

  3. Continued playing career

  4. Post playing

  5. Accolades

  6. References

  7. External links

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}}Duncan Fulton Thompson MBE (14 March 1895 – 17 May 1980) was an Australian rugby league footballer, coach and administrator. He saw active service in the WWI, was named amongst the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century,[1] and is regarded as the father of modern coaching.[2]

Early life

Born in Warwick, Queensland, on 14 March 1895, Thompson would go on to become a banker and skillful rugby league {{rlp|hb}}. He commenced his club career in the Queensland town of Ipswich, and first represented for Queensland in 1915.

Military service

Thompson moved to Sydney where he played for Norths before enlisting in the First Australian Imperial Force in 1916 during World War I. He left Sydney in 1917 on HMAS Ayrshire with the 49th Battalion (Queensland) within 13th Brigade of the Australian 4th Division, and saw active service in Belgium and France. In April 1918 during the German Spring Offensive he was shot through the chest at Dernancourt on the Ancre River but survived. He was told he would not play sport again and carried a bullet fragment in his body for the rest of his life. He was discharged after demobilisation in January 1919.

Continued playing career

After returning to Australia in 1919 Thompson joined the Commonwealth Bank and re-commenced his football career. He made the 1919 tour of New Zealand in the first Australian full Test representative side to cross the Tasman. With the world still recovering from World War I and in the midst of the deadly Spanish flu pandemic, the side could only find passage to New Zealand on a cockroach and rat-infested cargo ship out of Newcastle harbour. Half-way across the Tasman, bites from the ship-bred vermin led to Thompson and "Chook" Fraser falling victim to blood-poisoned legs.

Thompson won premierships with Norths in 1921 and along with other North Sydney stars Harold Horder and Cec Blinkhorn he was selected to go on the 1921–22 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain, playing in all three Tests and twenty-three tour matches, topping 100 points on the overall tour with 49 goals. He also took Norths to victory in the 1922 NSWRFL season's premiership final, captaining the side.

Thompson's departure from Sydney was bitter following a suspension on a kicking charge which he steadfastly denied. Returning to Queensland, he captained the Toowoomba team in 1924 and 1925, alongside Herb Steinohrt and Tom Gorman. This renowned Toowoomba side beat all comers, including Sydney premiers Souths, Brisbane, Ipswich and visiting representative sides, including New South Wales, Victoria, Great Britain and New Zealand. His international representative career closed in 1924 with two Test appearances in the Ashes series against the touring British Lions.

Post playing

He served again for his country in the AIF in World War II as an amenities officer at Townsville and in Papua New Guinea. He served as an administrator for the Queensland Rugby League[3] and also coached the Toowoomba Clydesdales to six victories in the Bulimba Cup in the 1950s. He was a state and national selector in the 1950s and 1960s.

A Toowoomba champion tennis player and Queensland state tennis representative, Thompson played in the men's doubles at the 1931 New South Wales Open. He was also an accomplished cricketer,

fine golfer and lawn bowler.[4]

[5]

His brother Colin Thompson also played representative rugby league for Queensland in the 1920s.

Thompson died in Auchenflower, Queensland on 17 May 1980.

Accolades

In 1929 the Duncan Thompson Stand at the North Sydney Oval was named after him. In 1960 Thompson was honoured as a Member (civil) of the Order of the British Empire for his contribution to sport.

In 2005 he was inducted into the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame and in August, 2006 was named at halfback in the North Sydney Bears' Team of the Century.[6] In February 2008, Thompson was named in the list of Australia's 100 Greatest Players (1908–2007) which was commissioned by the NRL and ARL to celebrate the code's centenary year in Australia.[7][8] In June 2008, he was chosen in the Queensland Rugby League's Team of the Century on interchange bench.[9]

In 2008, rugby league in Australia's centenary year, Thompson was named as half-back and coach of the Toowoomba and South West Team of the Century.

References

1. ^Century's Top 100 Players {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080225164807/http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles/2008/02/22/Controversy_reigns_as_NRL_releases_top_100_players|date=25 February 2008}}
2. ^{{cite news|last=Leslie|first=Cameron|title=Rugby League Team of the Century named|url=http://www.thechronicle.com.au/story/2008/08/21/team-of-greats-shows-depthof-south-west/|accessdate=8 January 2012|newspaper=The Chronicle|date=21 August 2008}}
3. ^{{cite news| title = Sydney clubs ready to sign Hall| work = The Sunday Herald| place =Australia| pages = 7| date = 21 August 1949| url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vl0QAAAAIBAJ&sjid=H5MDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7124,2588293| accessdate = 7 December 2009}}
4. ^{{cite book| last = Pollard| first = Jack| title = Gregory's Guide to Rugby League| publisher = Grenville Publishing| year = 1965| location = Australia| id = p167 }}
5. ^[https://secure.ausport.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/98638/Australian_Rugby_League_2005.pdf 2005 Annual Report] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090705170103/https://secure.ausport.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/98638/Australian_Rugby_League_2005.pdf|date=5 July 2009}} - Australian Rugby League (p. 50)
6. ^Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080518042953/http://rl1908.com/Hoffame/index.htm|date=18 May 2008}}
7. ^{{cite news|author=Peter Cassidy|publisher=Macquarie National News|title=Controversy reigns as NRL releases top 100 players|url=http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles/2008/02/22/Controversy_reigns_as_NRL_releases_top_100_players|accessdate=23 February 2008|date=23 February 2008|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080225164807/http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles/2008/02/22/Controversy_reigns_as_NRL_releases_top_100_players|archivedate=25 February 2008|df=dmy}}
8. ^{{cite web|publisher=NRL & ARL|title=Centenary of Rugby League – The Players|url=http://www.centenaryofrugbyleague.com.au/site/the-players.aspx?cat=3&list=true|accessdate=23 February 2008|date=23 February 2008|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080226180521/http://www.centenaryofrugbyleague.com.au/site/the-players.aspx?cat=3&list=true|archivedate=26 February 2008|df=dmy}}
9. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23843448-10389,00.html|publisher=The Courier-Mail|date=10 June 2008|title=Locky named No.1 but Wal's still King|accessdate=20 May 2009|first=Steve|last=Ricketts|archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5gudB7r9U?url=http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23843448-10389,00.html|archivedate=20 May 2009|deadurl=yes|df=dmy}}

External links

  • Duncan Thompson at the Online Dictionary of Australian Biographies
  • Duncan Thompson stats at rugbyleagueproject.com
  • Master Coach Joins Hall Of Fame – article at qrl.com.au
  • Duncan Thompson at yesterdayshero.com.au
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20140114111429/http://nz.leagueunlimited.com/news.php?newsid=16380 Queensland Team of the Century named – article at nz.leagueunlimited.com]
  • Duncan Thompson at nrlstats.com
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20110524211341/http://www.qrl.com.au/qrl_history/qld_rep_t.php Queensland representatives at qrl.com.au]
  • [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/203/203103/203103.html Duncan Thompson at cricketarchive.com]
  • Whiticker, Alan & Hudson, Glen (2006) The Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players, Gavin Allen Publishing, Sydney
  • Andrews, Malcolm (2006) The ABC of Rugby League Austn Broadcasting Corpn, Sydney
  • Centenary Test Game Day Souvenir Program (2008), News Magazines, Surry Hills, Sydney
  • Pollard, Jack (ed) Gregory's Guide to Rugby League (1965), Grenville Publishing Sydney
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