Emlyn Davies

Emlyn Price Davies (15 January 1922 – 6 September 2016) was a Welsh international rugby union prop who played club rugby for Swansea and Aberavon and county rugby for Glamorgan. He was capped for Wales national rugby union team on two occasions.

Emlyn Davies

Birth name	Emlyn Price Davies[1]
Date of birth	(1922-01-15)15 January 1922
Place of birth	Port Talbot, Wales
Date of death	6 September 2016(2016-09-06) (aged 94)
School	Maesteg Grammar School
Rugby union career
Position(s) Prop Amateur team(s) Years Team Apps (Points) Cwmavon RFC Cymmer RFC Glyncorrwg RFC Maesteg RFC Swansea RFC Aberavon RFC () National team(s) Years Team Apps (Points) 1947–1948 Wales[2] 2 (0)

Davies played for a wide variety of club teams, but it was while he was with Aberavon that he was selected to play for Wales against the touring, 1947 Australian team. It was a dull encounter played out between the forwards, but Davies finished on the winning side as Wales won 6-0. Davies gained his second and final cap in the 1948 Five Nations Championship in the last game of the tournament against Ireland. It was a close game, but Ireland won 6-3, and won the Triple Crown for the first time since 1899. He died on 6 September 2016 at the age of 94.[3][4]

International matches played

Wales[5]

•  Australia 1947
•  Ireland 1948

Bibliography

• Smith, David; Williams, Gareth (1980). Fields of Praise: The Official History of The Welsh Rugby Union. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 0-7083-0766-3.

References

1. Ospreys player profiles
2. Welsh Rugby Union player profiles
3. OBITUARY: ABERAVON INTERNATIONAL EMLYN DAVIES DIES
4. DAVIES Emlyn : Obituary
5. Smith (1980), pg 464.