List of Wales national rugby union players is a list of players who have represented Wales at rugby union.
One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand.It is played with an oval-shaped ball on a field up to 100 metres (330 ft) long and 70 metres (230 ft) wide with H-shaped goal posts on each goal line. Geen unsuccessfully trialled for England in 1910, but was selected and played for Wales on three occasions in the 1912–1913 season. Welsh rugby is a game awash with weird and wonderful nicknames, but where do they actually come from? [25] In 2003, Edwards was voted the greatest player of all time by Rugby World magazine.
This list includes all the players who have represented the Welsh national team. [31][32] He also toured with the British Lions in 1971 and 1974, and in 2008 a readers poll in The Telegraph voted him the greatest Lions' fullback of all time.
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[22][26] In 2007, Edwards earned an additional honour with his induction into the World Rugby Hall of Fame. He coached the British Lions to their only series victory over New Zealand in 1971, with a team including many Welsh players. Players that were first capped during the same match are listed in order of those that began in the starting line up before replacements and then in alphabetical order by surname. Davies also played for the Lions during their 1968 tour of South Africa and 1971 tour of New Zealand. [3], Somerset-born Frank Hancock, a 2011 inductee into the World Rugby Hall of Fame, changed the game of rugby when he was played as a fourth three-quarter for Cardiff. [5], Bleddyn Williams and Jack Matthews, both centres who were inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame in 2013, were called by World Rugby "a uniquely complementary and successful partnership at club, national team and Lions levels after the Second World War". [5] He was the only Welsh player in the British Isles team of 1899, and was the star for Wales during their first golden era. The brand new Welsh Rugby jersey is on sale now exclusively from the Official Welsh Rugby Store. [31] Playing at fullback, he won three Five Nations Grand Slams with Wales in the 1970s, and captained Wales in 1979.
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