Jim Sullivan (rugby, born 1903)

Jim Sullivan

Cigarette card featuring Jim Sullivan
Personal information
Full name	James Sullivan
Born	(1903-12-02)2 December 1903 Cardiff, Wales
Died	14 September 1977(1977-09-14) (aged 73) Cardiff, Wales
Playing information
Rugby union
Position	Fullback
Club Years Team Pld T G FG P 1920–21 Cardiff RFC 38 1 Representative Years Team Pld T G FG P Barbarians
Rugby league
Position	Fullback
Club Years Team Pld T G FG P 1921–46 Wigan 774 83 2317 0 4883 (guest) → Dewsbury 27 2 84 0 174 (guest) → Keighley 3 0 8 0 16 (guest) → Bradford Northern 1 0 5 0 10 Total 805 85 2414 0 5083 Representative Years Team Pld T G FG P 1921–39 Wales (tests) 26 3 60 0 129 1924–34 Great Britain 28 0 78 0 156 1937 British Empire XIII 1 0 3 0 6 1924–33 Other Nationalities 6 0 22 0 44 1924–32 GB tour games 37 4 206 0 424 1927–31 Glamorgan 12 2 33 0 72
Coaching information
Club Years Team Gms W D L W% 1932–52 Wigan 1952–58 St. Helens 1958–61 Rochdale Hornets 1961 Wigan Total 0 0 0 0
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Jim Sullivan (2 December 1903 – 14 September 1977)^[4] was a Welsh rugby league player, and coach.^[1] Sullivan joined Wigan in June 1921 after starting his career in rugby union. A right-footed toe-end style (rather than round the corner style) goal-kicking fullback, he scored 4,883 points in a career that spanned 25 years with Wigan, and still holds several records with the club today.

He made a combined total of 60 appearances at representative level with England, Wales, Great Britain and Other Nationalities, and his 26 appearances with Wales was still a record for many years after his death. He also represented Wales in British baseball. Sullivan went on to have the rare distinction of playing all three codes of baseball played in Britain the inter-war years. He played both Welsh and English baseball before the two codes were unified in 1927 and continued playing baseball in the latter 20s and 30s, primarily for the Everton and St Margarets baseball clubs in Liverpool. In the mid-1930 he also played American baseball for Manchester Blue Sox and Greenfield Giants.