Tom Hemingway (born 6 December 1986) is an English former professional

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, is a contact sport, full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular Rugby league playin ...

footballer who played as a and in the 2000s and 2010s. He played for the

Batley Bulldogs The Batley Bulldogs are an English professional rugby league club in Batley, West Yorkshire, who play in the Championship. Batley were one of the original twenty-two rugby football clubs that formed the Northern Rugby Football Union in 1895. ...

in the

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Background

Hemingway was born in

Dewsbury Dewsbury is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the River Calder, West Yorkshire, River Calder and on an arm of the Calder and Hebble Navigation waterway. It is to the west of Wakefield, ...

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, England.

Career

He started out with

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side

Huddersfield Giants The Huddersfield Giants are an English professional rugby league club from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. Huddersfield play their home games at the John Smiths Stadium and compete in Super League, the top tier of British rugby league sy ...

before going on loan to the

. Tom joined

Blackpool Panthers Blackpool Panthers RLFC was an English professional rugby league club based in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire. They played at Bloomfield Road, between 2005 and 2007, then moved to the Woodlands Memorial Ground owned by Fylde rugby union club. They ...

ahead of the 2010 season and made an impressive start at scrum-half for the Championship One promotion hopefuls. On 21 June 2019 Hemingway announced his retirement through injury

References

External links

Profile at featherstonerovers.netGiants Official Player Profile
1986 births Living people Batley Bulldogs players Blackpool Panthers players Dewsbury Rams players English rugby league players Featherstone Rovers players Halifax Panthers players Huddersfield Giants players Leigh Leopards players Rugby league five-eighths Rugby league halfbacks Rugby league hookers Rugby league players from Dewsbury Whitehaven R.L.F.C. players {{England-rugbyleague-bio-stub