title: Claude Nicholson (rugby league)
text: # Claude Nicholson (rugby league)
  
  Claude Hubert "Tod" Nicholson (1892-1951) was a rugby league footballer in the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) Competition.
  
  ## Playing career
  
  Nicholson, known as Tod, played for the Eastern Suburbs side in the 1913 season, the year the club won its third successive premiership. He is recognised as the 'Tricolours' 69th player. In 1914 he enlisted in the armed services and serviced with the 14th field ambulance corp at 2 AGH (Australian ground hospital) Boulogne, France.
  
  ## Death
  
  Nicholson died at the Concord Repatriation General Hospital on the 12 March 1951.
  
  