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Duncan Fulton Thompson MBE (14 March 1895, in Warwick, Queensland – 17 May 1980, in Auchenflower, Queensland) was an Australian rugby league footballer, coach and administrator. He also fought in the First World War, was named amongst the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century,〔(Century's Top 100 Players )〕 and is regarded as the father of modern coaching. ==Club career and wartime== A banker and skillful rugby league halfback, who commenced his club career in the Queensland town of Ipswich, Thompson first represented for Queensland in 1915. He then 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. 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's brother Colin also played representative rugby league for Queensland in the 1920s. Thompson won premierships with Norths in 1921 and along with other North Sydney stars in Harold Horder and Cec Blinkhorn he was selected 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 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Duncan Thompson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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