Jim Sullivan (rugby league footballer)

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Jim Sullivan was a Welsh rugby league player. The Wigan full-back, a prodigious goalkicker, scored 6,022 points in a career that spanned 25 years.

He joined Wigan in June 1921 from Cardiff Rugby Union Club.

On 14 February 1925, he landed 22 against amateurs Flimby & Fothergill in the Challenge Cup, which is still a record. He toured with the Great Britain side three times (1924, 1928 and 1932) and was captain on the final occasion. He top scored on all three tours. He refused what would have been record fourth trip, in 1936, for personal reasons.

For twenty years, he dominated at fullback, representing Great Britain (25 times), Wales (26), England (3), Other Nationalities (6), Glamorgan (1) and Glamorgan & Monmouthshire (12). Due to the Second World War, his last season was 1939/40, although he played several times when peace resumed, the last at Batley in February 1946.

When he removed his Wigan jersey for the final time, he had amassed 774 appearances, 2,317 goals and 4,883 points for the club, these figures are still unchallenged. He scored a club record of 161 goals in 1934/35 and , a record 194 goals in 1933/34 (including representative games).

The player-coach from 1932, he continued managing Wigan after retiring as a player, creating one of the club's greatest sides before joining St Helens in 1952, overseeing their rise to power. He was an inductee to the Rugby League Hall of Fame in October 1988.