[b] He compiled a career college football record of 6–7–3 as a head coach.

Thomas was also the head basketball coach at New Hampshire for one season, in 1910–11, tallying a mark of 6–3.

[2] During World War I, he served as a major in the U.S. Army Medical Corps,[5] and was chief of X-ray services at the Camp McClellan hospital in Alabama.

[2] Thomas died in August 1931 at the age of 47, of pneumonia brought on by heat stroke while on duty with the Army Reserve.

[5][2] He was a Freemason and a member of the Episcopal Church; he was survived by his wife, Elizabeth Laird Thomas.