Sam Thomson (sportsman, born 1911)

Samuel Johnstone Thomson (27 May 1911 – 23 March 1995) was a Scottish amateur sportsman who played football and cricket.

Thomson played as a centre half in the Scottish League for Queen's Park from 1935 to 1942 and was capped by Scotland at amateur level.

[4] Following the Second World War, he resumed playing first-class cricket for Scotland, making two further appearances.

He was educated at Camphill Secondary School, before matriculating to the University of Glasgow.

[9] During the Second World War, he was an emergency commission in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve as a pilot officer on probation in March 1943.