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| Full name | Thomas Smales | |||||
| Playing information | ||||||
| Position | Scrum-half/Halfback | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1958–59 | Castleford | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 196?–6? | Huddersfield | 111 | 1 | |||
| 196?–6? | Bradford Northern | |||||
| 196?–6? | North Sydney | |||||
| Total | 4 | 111 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1962–75 | England | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1962–65 | Great Britain | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Coaching information | ||||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Gms | W | D | L | W% |
| 1969–70 | Castleford | 67 | 46 | 2 | 19 | 69 |
| Source: rugbyleagueproject.org englandrl.co.uk | ||||||
Thomas "Tommy" Smales is an English former professional rugby league footballer of the 1950s, '60s and '70s, and coach of the 1960s and '70s who at representative level has played for Great Britain, and England, at club level for Castleford, Huddersfield, Bradford Northern, and North Sydney Bears, and playing at Scrum-half/Halfback, i.e. number 7, and at club level has coached for Castleford.
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Tommy Smales won caps for England while at Huddersfield in 1962 against France, while Unattached in 1975 against Papua New Guinea (sub), and won caps for Great Britain while at Huddersfield in 1962 against France, in 1963 against France, and Australia, in 1964 against France (2 matches), while at Bradford in 1965 against New Zealand (3 matches).[1]
Tommy Smales is the only player to ever win an England cap while Unattached.
Somewhat confusingly, Tommy Smales played in the same era as the unrelated Wigan, Barrow and Featherstone Rovers Loose forward/Lock of the 1950s and '60s, Thomas "Tommy" Smales.
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