Thomas Gisborne Gordon
| Player information | ||
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| birthday | December 15, 1851 | |
| place of birth | Belfast , Ulster , Northern Ireland | |
| date of death | July 8, 1935 | |
| society | ||
| society | Career ended | |
| Clubs as active | ||
| Years | society | Games (points) |
| North of Ireland FC | ||
| National team | ||
| Years | National team | Games (points) |
| 1877-78 |
 Ireland
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3 |
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Status: January 29, 2015 |
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Thomas Gisborne Gordon (born December 15, 1851 , † July 8, 1935 ) was an Irish rugby union player who, among other things, completed three games for the Irish national team. He is the only one-armed rugby player to date to have completed an international match.
Life
Gordon was born in Belfast in 1851 . He attended rugby school in the town of Rugby , Warwickshire before returning to Ireland to play for rugby club North of Ireland FC and work as a winemaker . Even then he only had one hand because he had lost his right hand in a shooting accident. In 1890 he married Marie Louis Graham, with whom he had two children, a daughter named Helen who was born in 1891 and a son named Thomas who was born in August 1899. He died in 1935 at the age of 83.
Career
Gordon played three games for Ireland, two against England and one against Scotland. His third game, in which Ireland played against England, was the first to be played on Lansdowne Road .
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Gordon, Thomas Gisborne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish rugby union player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 15, 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Belfast , Ulster Province , Northern Ireland |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 8, 1935 |