Tom Smith (rugby union, born 1883) for them he did turn out once for Coventry's Northern Union side in 1910. Leicester's secretary Tom Crumbie tried to have Smith's amateur status re-instated on the basis that his signature was obtain by gross misrepresentation but was never successful. Farmer,Stuart & Hands, David "Tigers-Official History of Leicester Football Club" (The Rugby DevelopmentFoundation ) Mather, Tom "Rugby's Greatest Mystery: Who really was F.S.Jackson?", Appendix 2: "The Tigers feat: Leicester Tigers and the RFU 1895 to 1914" (London League Publications LTD ) Tom Smith (rugby union, born 1883) Thomas William Smith (15 August 1883 – 15 May 1960) was a rugby
Newport (Salop) Rugby Union Football Club Newport (Salop) Rugby Union Football Club Newport RUFC are an English rugby team that play at the Old Showground, just outside the town of Newport, Shropshire. They currently play in the Midlands Premier, a fifth tier league in the English rugby union system. Rugby was first played in Newport in 1871 when the new Headmaster of Adams' Grammar School, Tom Collins, introduced the game to the boys. In the same year a game was played between the school and a Town team on the Chetwynd End ground. In 1876 a Town team played Stafford and lost. It seems that, after