[8] He made his debut on 29 April in the last match of the season, a 2–0 win at home to Bradford City, who had just won the 1911 FA Cup Final after a replay.
Having given a fine exhibition of centre-forward play, "distributing the ball judiciously and accurately and shooting dead on the target", during which he scored four goals including a nine-minute hat-trick, Thompson fell out of favour with his opponents and in the last minute of the match, he and Chesterfield's Ernie Gadsby were sent off for fighting.
[14] After the war he returned to the north east of England where he played for Hartlepools United and scored nine goals from ten matches in the Northern Victory League.
He lies well up the field, ready to snap at any chance that may come along, and in this way he obtained the first goal, after the ball had struck the cross-bar from a long drive by Walton, the half back.
[22] Thompson began his Luton career with six goals in his first six Third Division South matches, but his goalscoring tailed off and he made only one appearance after the Christmas period.
[1] He was given a free transfer at the end of the season,[23] and signed for Pontypridd ahead of their unsuccessful bid for election to the Football League.
[26] After the first match, a 2–0 win against Rotherham County in the Third Division North, the Sheffield Daily Telegraph's opinion was that "in R. Thompson, Accrington have obtained a skilful and brainy leader, his ball distribution being unusually good.
[31] A run of 13 goals in 12 matches in the new year took his total to 21 for the season (17 in league competition) and made him the team's top scorer by some distance.
[1] Thompson played once in the Third Division North for Tranmere Rovers in September 1926,[1] and was given a month's trial at another Northern Section club, Hartlepools United, later in the year.