J. B. Thompson
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| Full name | James Bogne Thompson | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 1829 Yorkshire, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 18 July 1877 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | ||||||||||||||
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| 1861/62 | Victoria | ||||||||||||||
| Only FC | 9 January 1862 Victoria v New South Wales | ||||||||||||||
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James Bogne "J. B." Thompson (1829 – 18 July 1877) was one of the creators of the original laws of Australian rules football, one of the founders and the inaugural secretary of the Melbourne Football Club, a cricketer for Victoria and the Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC), and a journalist for Melbourne newspaper, The Argus.