| Personal information | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | David Thomas | |||||
| Nickname | Dai | |||||
| Born | Wales | |||||
| Playing information | ||||||
| Position | Second-row | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1901–1905 | Oldham | 61 | 1 | 3 | ||
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1904 | Other Nationalities | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| Source: rugbyleagueproject.org | ||||||
David "Dai" Thomas was a Welsh professional rugby league footballer of the 1900s who at representative level played for Other Nationalities, and at club level for Oldham, playing at Second-row, i.e. number 11 or 12.[1]
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David "Dai" Thomas won a cap, and scored his teams first try, playing left-Second-row for Other Nationalities in the 9-3 victory over England at Central Park, Wigan on 5 April 1904, in the first ever international rugby league match.[2][3]
Someone named Dai Thomas currently holds Dewsbury's "Tries In A Season" record with 40-tries scored in the 1906–07 season, and their "Tries In A Match" record with 8-tries against Liverpool City on 13 April 1907. These records were set in the same era as the Dai Thomas of this article, and as he had left Oldham during the 1904–05 season, he may have gone onto play for Dewsbury. However, as the Dai Thomas of this article scored only 1-try in 61-games for Oldham, and in his Other Nationalities match he played Second-row, this would infer he was a low-scoring Forward, rather than a high-scoring Back, so the Dai Thomas who played for Dewsbury may be a different person, possibly David "Dai" Thomas.