Tom Smith (rugby union, born 1883)

Thomas William Smith was a rugby union forward who played 58 times for Leicester Tigers between 1906 and 1908. Wood made his Leicester debut on 17 March 1906 against Birkenhead [Park FC]. Smith was also a member of the 1908 [British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia] and played in the second and third test, drawing the second and losing the third.
An RFU inquiry in 1908 declared Smith a professional after which he signed professional forms for Broughton Rangers, though he never played a game 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.