& Irish - Britain 18th March 1899. Quizzes. Until that year, union had been an amateur sport and, during the early 1990s, scores of Wales' leading players were prised away by rugby league and the money on offer in its professional competitions. Coldrick, H Jarman, T H Evans, D J Thomas, A. 11-13. reproduction photograph available in different sizes. Wales has also competed in the World Cup on five occasions, the first time being in 1975. Davies' distinctive grin hints at how highly in his glittering career he regards this game, which will be shown on BBC One Wales on Saturday. website - please click on As I went in to shower and change, the last thing I saw was a policeman’s helmet flying around. (Llanelly), Denzil Williams (Ebbw Vale), Alun Pask (Abertillery), John Mantle (Newport), D. Thomas (Aberavon), Bernard Marie J. D. Robins, D. Hayward, R. John, R. T. Evans, W. R. Brown (Referee), B. Cresswell. ), Mr. L. M. Boundy Wales lost the match 11-0. The former Cardiff fireman has had a spell as a Plaid Cymru councillor on Caerphilly Borough Council. - First Day Covers Became such a Cardiff rugby legend his name is rhyming slang for drinking all day. reproduction photograph available in different sizes. People wanted someone to fill the void. He scored four tries for his country and was named 1990 Welsh Player of the Year. The players and officials The Gnoll was never a place for the faint-hearted, and Neath were never going to allow South Africa to push them around. “But I left the heavy stuff to the boys up front. Llewellyn now says: “We had no choice to play as we did. Violence continued to punctuate proceedings and on full time, international prop Franck Tournaire seemed to jostle a touch-judge. The Maenclochog farmer won five caps for Wales. - International
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A further 13,000 saw the 1921–22 Kangaroo touring side play Wales in December 1921, this time in Pontypridd. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. Springboks - Wales B. This wasn’t just a different rugby environment from what Toulouse were used to.
C H Gadney (referee), J Lang, H Thomas, T Williams, G Williams, T J Rees, Bryn Evans, J Lot Thorn (touch Services), Right Wing, Bleddyn Williams (Cardiff), Left Centre, Jack named in this photograph are as follows: WALES 1958 RUGBY TEAM PHOTOGRAPH (v England) - England 3 - Wales 3 - Twickenham - 18th January 1958. Guides - Presentation County - Swansea But the game was still amateur at the time and to be in Neath that night was to witness an old-school encounter of the roughest kind. This was the first time Wales had competed in the tournament as an independent nation, having previously formed part of Great Britain teams. RUGBY PHOTOS. 12 th March 1932. Lemon, D. Thomas, T. Arthur, H. Peacock, J. S. Jones named in this photograph are as follows: WALES (v IRELAND) 1971 TRIPLE CROWN & GRAND SLAM “He was a great athlete and he put in some barnstorming runs.”, South Africa called for Neath to be banned from hosting tour matches, with Stauss, who had his nose broken after clouting Williams, saying: “I think they went on the field to fight us.”. Of the twelve players who played for the Other Nationalities team, as it was a 12-a-side game, ten of them were Welshmen coming from Northern English clubs. - Cards named in this photograph are as follows: WALES 1962 RUGBY TEAM PHOTOGRAPH (v France) - Wales 3 - France 0 - Cardiff Arms Park - 24th March 1962. One of the leading scrum halves of the decade, the Pontypridd number nine was unlucky not to get more than 10 caps for Wales, for whom he sat on the bench 34 times. (W.R.U. The players and officials reproduction photograph available in different sizes. this photograph are as follows: WALES 1972 RUGBY TEAM PHOTOGRAPH (v France) - Wales 20 - France 6 - Cardiff Arms Park - 25th March 1972. Davey (London Welsh), W Travers (Newport), F L Morgan (LLanelly), Harry photograph of the Welsh team that played Scotland on 30th March 1946.
named in this photograph are as follows: WALES 1951 RUGBY TEAM PHOTOGRAPH (v England) - Wales 23 - England 5 - St. Helen's, Swansea - 20th January 1951. That’s all part of the game.”. The players and officials in this photograph are as follows: A Judge), W. H. Raybould, J. P. R. Williams, S. J. Dawes, G. Edwards (Captain), B. John, I.
(Swansea), G. Owen (Newport & Carnegie Coll. He started for Wales 14 times in all. The discount applies to any photos purchased from the IRFU), Ray Prosser, Brian Cresswell, Geoff Whitson, Gareth Payne, Danny Harris, Glyn
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A Leleu, H. J. Davies, Mr. R. C. Williams (Ireland), M. Price, T. E. Davies, B. V. Meredith, R. C. C. Thomas (Captain), L. Williams, C. Ashton, D. J Pugsley, J Webb, W J Perry, A P A It is an ordinary house that has an extraordinary story to tell. - New Zealand named in this photograph are as follows: WALES 1949 RUGBY TEAM PHOTOGRAPH (v England) - Wales 9 - England 3 - Cardiff Arms Park - 15th January 1949. This is his story. Because of the long hiatus a large proportion of players competing in the 1921 match were earning their first cap for the team. * Brent Cockbain was the Welsh rugby player touched by tragedy who disappeared to start a new life. Welsh rugby union greats - in pictures. Three more matches against England were played including one in November 1928 played in Cardiff. By contrast, we’d gone from a wet and muddy Ebbw Vale autumn to a brilliant day down there with the temperatures touching 34 degrees. He had five starts for Wales. "But I knew, looking at the side that we had, we could play any type of rugby and if they wanted to mix it, our boys were not going to take a back step. The players and officials The first game at Leeds saw Wales lose 35–9 in front of 13,000. For 26 years Wales competed against their two biggest rivals, England and France, in the European Nations Cup, winning the trophy four times. But an Enigma codebreaker wasn’t needed to discern the meaning: it would be different at Eugene Cross Park. D. Hellewell (Referee), J. Roberts, D. R. Jenkins, Y. Jones, H. T. Phillips, A. E. Broughton, E. Jenkins, T. Many suspected race was the reason the WRU took so long to hand him his Test debut in June 1986. A
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4th February 1893 in the first Welsh Triple Crown winning season. However at the time Australia were arguably considered the world's second best nation (behind England) and so particularly in the first game, Wales had done very well against the touring Kangaroos. But they are a proud club with a tradition for producing hard and uncompromising forwards. Home - Australia won the match 49-14. A. Jones played 15 times for Wales before moving on to rugby league with Hull and then Warrington where he would win a further 11 caps and play once for Great Britain. D J Daniel, E G Nicholls, F H Cornish, J G Boots, W M LLewellyn, W Bancroft (Captain), H V P Huzzey, R T Skrimshire, The players and officials - www.walk-around-wales.com. T. Pritchard The players and officials in this photograph are as follows: A photograph of the combined Welsh & South - Prints & Sheets March 1936. - Argentina to Here, we remember some of the greatest characters Welsh rugby has ever known. C. H. Gadney (Referee), T. J. Rees, E. Watkins, H. Thomas, H. Rees, T. Williams, W. Travers, W. R. Thomas (Touch Well, some thought it was of medieval times, so savage had been the exchanges. But here’s the thing: no two games are ever the same.
Wales is commonly regarded as a rugby nation, with union casting an almost religious hold over it since the sport's emergence in the mid-1800s. Please note that the sizes of the photos are The players and officials in this photograph are as follows: WALES RUGBY TOUR OF NEW ZEALAND, AUSTRALIA & FIJI 1969 Referee - J B G Whittaker (Lancashire Trials - Varsity, Neath Lemon, Watcyn Thomas, A.