| Personal information | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | John Thomas | |||||
| Nickname | Johnny, Johny | |||||
| Playing information | ||||||
| Rugby union | ||||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| Maesteg RFC | ||||||
| Cardiff RFC | ||||||
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Rugby league | ||||||
| Position | Stand-off/Five-eighth, Scrum-half/Halfback | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1904–20 | Wigan | 435 | 108 | 443 | 0 | 1210 |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1908–14 | Wales | 8 | ||||
| 1908–11 | Great Britain | 10 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 34 |
| Source: rugbyleagueproject.org englandrl.co.uk | ||||||
John "Johnny"/"Johny" Thomas was a Welsh rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1900s, '10s and '20s who at club level played rugby union (RU) for Maesteg RFC, and Cardiff RFC, and at representative level played rugby league (RL) for Great Britain, and Wales, and at club level for Wigan, playing at Stand-off/Five-eighth, or Scrum-half/Halfback, i.e. number 6, or 7.[1]
At the end of the 1908–09 Northern Rugby Football Union season Thomas played at stand-off half in Wigan's victory over Oldham in the Championship Final.[2]
Thomas won a caps for Wales (RL) while at Wigan including in 1908 against New Zealand, and won caps for Great Britain (RL) while at Wigan in 1908 against New Zealand, and Australia, in 1909 against Australia (2 matches), on the 1910 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand against Australia (2 matches), and Australasia (2 matches), and New Zealand, and in 1911 against Australia.[3]