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{{Short description|Scotland international rugby union player}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}}
{{Use British English|date=September 2012}}
{{Infobox rugby biography
| name = Thomas Chalmers
| image = ThomasChalmers.png
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date |1850|3|19|df=y}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1926|5|25|1850|3|19|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Glasgow]], Scotland
| death_place = Glasgow, Scotland
| occupation = [[Stockbroker]]
| ru_position = [[Fullback (rugby union)|Fullback]]
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| amatteam1 = [[Glasgow Academicals RFC|Glasgow Academicals]]
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| province1 = [[Glasgow District (rugby union)|Glasgow District]]
| province2 = [[West of Scotland District (rugby union)|West of Scotland District]]
| provinceapps1 =
| provincepoints1 =
| repteam1 = [[Scotland national rugby union team|Scotland]]
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'''Thomas Chalmers''' (19 March 1850 – 25 May 1926) was a Scottish international [[rugby football|rugby]] and cricket player.<ref name="auto">Bath, Richard (ed.) ''The Scotland Rugby Miscellany'' (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 {{ISBN|1-905326-24-6}})</ref>

==Biography==
Thomas Chalmers was born in [[Glasgow]], the son of a merchant draper. He married Marion Dun Carrick, sister of the famed [[James Stewart Carrick]], in 1883 and they had one son, Archibald Patrick Chalmers, born in 1888. Thomas Chalmers died in Glasgow in 1926.

==Rugby==
One of the earliest Scottish players, he is sometimes considered the first great [[rugby union in Scotland|Scottish rugby]] fullback. He played in the first six international test matches, all of them against {{nrut|England}}, between 1871 and 1876,<ref name="auto"/> including {{nrut|Scotland}}'s very first match. He was a solid tackler, good kicker and handy dribbler (a tactic of the time). He played club rugby for the [[Glasgow Academicals]], which was the strongest club in Scotland at the time.<ref name="auto"/>

He played in the world's first inter-district provincial match on 23 November 1872. Chalmers represented Glasgow District in their match against Edinburgh District on that date.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hY9EAAAAIBAJ&sjid=b7UMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5954%2C5078015|title=The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search|publisher=}}</ref>

In October 1872, Chalmers took part in a trial match for the [[Scotland national football team|Scotland]] team for the first [[association football]] [[1872 Scotland v England football match|international match]] against [[England national football team|England]] and was named in the list of 17 possible players. Chalmers was praised as "a capital goalkeeper, albeit the rules were new to him." In the event, the entire Scottish team was made up of members of the [[Queen's Park F.C.|Queen's Park]] club.<ref>{{cite book | title=Arthur Kinnaird: First Lord of Football|last= Mitchell|first= Andy | publisher= Andy Mitchell |year=2011|isbn=978-1-4636-2111-7|page=58}}</ref>

He also represented the [[West of Scotland District (rugby union)|West of Scotland District]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000060/18760228/032/0006 |title=Register |access-date=June 4, 2023 |url-access=subscription |via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref>

He was a cousin of the [[George Neilson|Neilson brothers]], who played for Scotland and then became Presidents of the [[Scottish Rugby Union|SRU]] (then the Scottish Football Union) and his nephew John Knox played in the 1903 [[Triple Crown (rugby union)|Triple Crown]] winning rugby team.

==Cricket==
He also represented [[Scotland national cricket team|Scotland]] at cricket. He was an excellent batsman and a good medium paced bowler. On one occasion playing for West of Scotland against Australia in 1878 he scored 38 against the bowling of [[Fred Spofforth]], Garrett and others.

==See also==
* [[List of cricket and rugby union players#Scottish|List of Scottish cricket and rugby union players]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.glasgowhawks.com/?app=cms&page=history GlasgowHawks.com - CMS] at www.glasgowhawks.com History of the Glasgow Hawks

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[[Category:Scottish rugby union players]]
[[Category:Scotland international rugby union players]]
[[Category:Rugby union players from Glasgow]]
[[Category:History of rugby union in Scotland]]
[[Category:Glasgow Academicals rugby union players]]
[[Category:Scottish stockbrokers]]
[[Category:Glasgow District (rugby union) players]]
[[Category:West of Scotland District (rugby union) players]]
[[Category:West of Scotland cricket players]]
[[Category:Rugby union fullbacks]]

Thomas Chalmers (rugby) - Revision history

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