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David Watkins (rugby)

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David Watkins MBE (born 5 March 1942) is a Welsh former dual-code rugby international, having played both rugby union, and rugby league football for both codes' national teams between 1963 and 1974. [1]

74 relations: Abertillery RFC, Barbarian F.C., BBC2 Floodlit Trophy, Blaina, Brian Price (rugby union), British and Irish Lions, Cardiff City Blue Dragons, Castleford Tigers, Central Park (Wigan), Challenge Cup, Clive Rowlands, Crawshays RFC, Crusaders Rugby League, Drop goal, Ebbw Vale RFC, England national rugby union team, Falklands War, Fartown Ground, Fullback (rugby league), Glamorgan County RFC, Glengarth Sevens, Great Britain national rugby league team, Huddersfield, Jonathan Davies (rugby, born 1962), League Cup (rugby league), Leeds Rhinos, List of dual-code rugby internationals, Monmouthshire (historic), Monmouthshire County RFC, New Zealand national rugby union team, Newport RFC, Order of the British Empire, Penarth RFC, Pontypool RFC, Replay (sports), RFL Lancashire Cup, Rugby Football League Championship First Division, Rugby league, Rugby league county cups, Rugby League Premiership, Rugby union, Salford Red Devils, Simon Weston, St Helens R.F.C., St. Helen's Rugby and Cricket Ground, Stockport RUFC, Swansea, Swinton Lions, Testimonial match, The Willows, Salford, ..., Triple Crown (rugby union), Try, Wales national rugby league team, Wales national rugby union team, Warrington, Warrington Wolves, Widnes Vikings, Wigan, Wigan Warriors, Wilderspool Stadium, 1972–73 Lancashire Cup, 1972–73 League Cup (rugby league), 1972–73 Northern Rugby Football League season, 1973 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France, 1973–74 Lancashire Cup, 1973–74 Northern Rugby Football League season, 1974 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy, 1974–75 Northern Rugby Football League season, 1975 Rugby League World Cup, 1975–76 Lancashire Cup, 1975–76 Northern Rugby Football League season, 1977 Rugby League World Cup, 1978 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France, 1986 New Year Honours. Expand index (24 more) »

Abertillery RFC

Abertillery Rugby Football Club is a Welsh rugby union club based in Abertillery.

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Barbarian F.C.

The Barbarian Football Club, usually called the Barbarians and nicknamed the Baa-Baas, is an invitational rugby union team based in Britain.

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BBC2 Floodlit Trophy

The BBC 2 Floodlit Trophy (also known as the BBC 2 Television Trophy) was a competition for British rugby league clubs held between 1965 and 1980.

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Blaina

Blaina (Y Blaenau) is a small town, situated deep within the South Wales Valleys between Brynmawr and Abertillery in the unitary authority of Blaenau Gwent, ancient parish of Aberystruth, preserved county of Gwent and historic county of Monmouthshire.

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Brian Price (rugby union)

Brian Price (born 30 October 1937) is a former Wales international rugby union player.

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British and Irish Lions

The British & Irish Lions is a rugby union team selected from players eligible for any of the Home Nations – the national teams of England, Scotland, and Wales – and Ireland.

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Cardiff City Blue Dragons

The Cardiff City Blue Dragons were a rugby league team formed in 1981.

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Castleford Tigers

The Castleford Tigers are a rugby league club in Castleford, West Yorkshire, England, that competes in the Super League, the top-level professional rugby league club competition in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Central Park (Wigan)

Central Park was a rugby league stadium in Wigan, England, which was the home of Wigan RLFC before the club moved to the JJB Stadium in 1999.

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Challenge Cup

The Challenge Cup (also known as the Ladbrokes Challenge Cup due to sponsorship by Ladbrokes) is a knockout rugby league cup competition organised by the Rugby Football League, held annually since 1896, with the exception of 1915–1919 and 1939–1940.

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Clive Rowlands

Clive Rowlands OBE (born 14 May 1938) is a former Welsh rugby union footballer and later coach.

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Crawshays RFC

Crawshays Welsh RFC is an invitational rugby union team.

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Crusaders Rugby League

Crusaders Rugby League (Croesgadwyr Rygbi'r Gynghrair) was a professional rugby league club based in Bridgend and later in Wrexham, Wales.

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Drop goal

A drop goal, field goal, dropped goal, or pot is a method of scoring points in rugby union and rugby league and also, rarely, in American football and Canadian football.

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Ebbw Vale RFC

Ebbw Vale Rugby Football Club (Clwb Rygbi Glyn Ebwy) is a Welsh Rugby Union Club based in the town of Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, South Wales.

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England national rugby union team

The England national rugby union team competes in the annual Six Nations Championship with France, Ireland, Scotland, Italy, and Wales.

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Falklands War

The Falklands War (Guerra de las Malvinas), also known as the Falklands Conflict, Falklands Crisis, Malvinas War, South Atlantic Conflict, and the Guerra del Atlántico Sur (Spanish for "South Atlantic War"), was a ten-week war between Argentina and the United Kingdom over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands, and its territorial dependency, the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

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Fartown Ground

Fartown Ground, is a sports ground located in the Huddersfield suburb of Fartown in West Yorkshire, England and is predominantly famous for being the home ground of Huddersfield Rugby League Club from 1878 to 1992.

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Fullback (rugby league)

Fullback (or full-back) is one of the positions in a rugby league football team.

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Glamorgan County RFC

Glamorgan County RFC is a Welsh rugby union club that manages an invitational team, known as Glamorgan that originally played rugby at county level.

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Glengarth Sevens

The Glengarth Sevens was an annual 7 a-side rugby union tournament held at Davenport Rugby Club The first Glengarth Sevens was held in 1967 at Headlands Road, home of Davenport Rugby Club.

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Great Britain national rugby league team

The Great Britain national rugby league team represents Great Britain in rugby league.

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Huddersfield

Huddersfield is a large market town in West Yorkshire, England.

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Jonathan Davies (rugby, born 1962)

Jonathan Davies, OBE (born 24 October 1962) is a British former rugby footballer of the 1980s and 1990s who represented Wales in both rugby union, and rugby league.

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League Cup (rugby league)

The League Cup was a knock-out competition for British rugby league football clubs between 1971 and 1996.

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Leeds Rhinos

The Leeds Rhinos are a professional rugby league club based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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List of dual-code rugby internationals

A dual-code rugby international is a rugby footballer who has played at the senior international level in both rugby league and rugby union.

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Monmouthshire (historic)

Monmouthshire, also known as the County of Monmouth (Sir Fynwy), is one of thirteen historic counties of Wales and a former administrative county.

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Monmouthshire County RFC

Monmouthshire County RFC is a Welsh rugby union club that manages an invitational team, known as Monmouthshire that originally played rugby at county level.

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New Zealand national rugby union team

The New Zealand national rugby union team, called the All Blacks, represents New Zealand in men's rugby union, which is known as the country's national sport.

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Newport RFC

Newport Rugby Football Club (Clwb Rygbi Casnewydd) is a Welsh rugby union club based in the city of Newport, South Wales.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.

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Penarth RFC

Penarth Rugby Football Club is a Welsh rugby union club based since 1924 at The Athletic Field, Lavernock Road, in Penarth, in the Vale of Glamorgan in Wales.

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Pontypool RFC

Pontypool Rugby Football Club is a Welsh rugby union team based in the town of Pontypool.

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Replay (sports)

A replay (also called a rematch) is the repetition of a match in many sports.

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RFL Lancashire Cup

The RFL Lancashire Cup was a county cup competition for teams in Lancashire that took place between 1905–06 and 1992–93 when it folded due to teams complaining about the number of fixtures being too much.

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Rugby Football League Championship First Division

The Rugby Football League Championship First Division was the top division of rugby league in the UK between 1895 and 1996.

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Rugby league

Rugby league football is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field.

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Rugby league county cups

Historically, English rugby league clubs competed for the Lancashire Cup and the Yorkshire Cup, known collectively as the county cups.

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Rugby League Premiership

The Rugby League Premiership was a competition for British rugby league clubs that operated between 1973 and 1995.

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Rugby union

Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Salford Red Devils

The Salford Red Devils are a professional rugby league club in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, who play in the Super League.

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Simon Weston

Simon Weston CBE (born 8 August 1961) is a veteran of the British Army who known for his charity work and recovery from severe burn injuries suffered during the Falklands War.

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St Helens R.F.C.

St Helens R.F.C. is a professional rugby league club in St Helens, Merseyside currently competing in the Super League, the top tier of competition for rugby league in Europe.

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St. Helen's Rugby and Cricket Ground

St Helen's Rugby and Cricket Ground is a sports venue in Swansea, Wales, owned and operated by the City and County of Swansea Council.

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Stockport RUFC

Stockport Rugby Union Football Club is a rugby union club based in Stockport, Greater Manchester.

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Swansea

Swansea (Abertawe), is a coastal city and county, officially known as the City and County of Swansea (Dinas a Sir Abertawe) in Wales, UK.

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Swinton Lions

The Swinton Lions are an English professional rugby league club from Swinton, Greater Manchester, who compete in the Championship, the second tier of European rugby league.

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Testimonial match

A testimonial match or testimonial game, often referred to simply as a testimonial, is a practice in some sports, particularly in football in the United Kingdom and South America, where a club has a match to honour a player for service to the club.

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The Willows, Salford

The Willows was a rugby league stadium in Weaste, Salford, England.

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Triple Crown (rugby union)

In rugby union, the Triple Crown is an honour contested annually by the "Home Nations" – i.e. England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales who compete within the larger Six Nations Championship.

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Try

A try is a way of scoring points in rugby union and rugby league football.

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Wales national rugby league team

The Wales national rugby league team represents Wales in international rugby league football matches.

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Wales national rugby union team

The Wales national rugby union team (Tîm rygbi'r undeb cenedlaethol Cymru) competes annually in the Six Nations Championship with England, France, Ireland, Italy and Scotland.

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Warrington

Warrington is a large town and unitary authority area in Cheshire, England, on the banks of the River Mersey, east of Liverpool, and west of Manchester.

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Warrington Wolves

Warrington Wolves are a professional rugby league club in Warrington, England, that competes in Super League.

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Widnes Vikings

The Widnes Vikings are an English professional rugby league club based in Widnes, Cheshire that plays in the Super League, the top tier of European rugby league.

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Wigan

Wigan is a town in Greater Manchester, England, on the River Douglas, south-west of Bolton, north of Warrington and west-northwest of Manchester.

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Wigan Warriors

Wigan Warriors is a professional Rugby League club based in Wigan, England.

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Wilderspool Stadium

Wilderspool Stadium was a rugby league stadium in Warrington, England.

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1972–73 Lancashire Cup

The 1972–73 Lancashire Cup was the sixtieth occasion on which the competition was held.

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1972–73 League Cup (rugby league)

This was the second season of the League Cup, which was known as the Players No.6 Trophy for sponsorship reasons.

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1972–73 Northern Rugby Football League season

The 1972–73 Northern Rugby Football League season was the 78th season of rugby league football played in England.

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1973 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France

The 1973 Kangaroo Tour was the thirteenth Kangaroo Tour, where the Australian national rugby league team travelled to Europe and played nineteen matches against British and French club and representative rugby league teams, in addition to three Test matches against Great Britain and two Tests against the French.

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1973–74 Lancashire Cup

The 1973–74 Lancashire Cup was the sixty-first occasion on which the completion was held.

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1973–74 Northern Rugby Football League season

The 1973–74 Rugby Football League season was the 79th season of rugby league football.

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1974 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy

1974 was the tenth occasion on which the BBC2 Floodlit Trophy competition had been held.

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1974–75 Northern Rugby Football League season

The 1974–75 Rugby Football League season was the 80th season of competition between the clubs of England's Northern Rugby Football League.

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1975 Rugby League World Cup

The 1975 Rugby League World Championship (also referred to as the World Series) was the seventh ever tournament for the Rugby League World Cup.

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1975–76 Lancashire Cup

The 1975 Rugby League Lancashire Cup competition 1975–76 was the sixty-third occasion on which the Lancashire Cup completion had been held.

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1975–76 Northern Rugby Football League season

The 1975–76 Rugby Football League season was the 81st season of rugby league football.

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1977 Rugby League World Cup

The 1977 Rugby League World Cup was the eighth Rugby League World Cup tournament and was held in Australasia, with games played during May and June in both Australia and New Zealand.

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1978 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France

The 1978 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France comprised the Australia national rugby league team's fourteenth tour of Great Britain and ninth tour of France, and took place from September to December 1978.

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1986 New Year Honours

The New Year Honours 1986 were appointments by most of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries, and honorary ones to citizens of other countries.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Watkins_(rugby)

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