Watcyn Thomas

Watcyn Thomas

Infobox Rugby biography
name = Watcyn Thomas


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birthname = Watcyn Thomas
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birthyear = 1906
birthmonth = 1
birthday = 16
placeofbirth = Llanelli [ [http://www.scrum.com/1200_1205.php?player=17328&includeref=dynamic Scrum.com player profiles] ] , Wales
deathyear = 1977
deathmonth = 8
deathday = 10
placeofdeath = Birmingham, England
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ru_position = Number 8
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ru_amateurclubs = Llanelli RFC
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ru_nationalteam = Wales
ru_nationalyears = 1927–1933
ru_nationalcaps = 14
ru_nationalpoints = (6)
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occupation = teacher
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school = Llanelli County School
university = University College, Swansea
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Watcyn Thomas (16 January 190610 August 1977) was a Welsh rugby union player who captained Wales in the early 1930s.

Thomas was born in Llanelli and educated at Llanelli County School and at University College, Swansea. While still at school he was the first captain of the newly-formed Welsh Secondary Schools XV in 1924. He then joined Llanelli RFC, moving to Swansea in December 1927. A teacher by profession, he moved to St Helens to teach at Cowley Grammar School in 1929, and played rugby for Waterloo and Lancashire, captaining Lancashire to the championship in 1934-35.

After Llanelli's victory against the touring New Zealand Maoris, he won his first cap for Wales against England in 1927. Against Scotland in 1931 he played for 70 minutes with a broken collarbone and scored a try. As captain he led Wales to victory over England at Twickenham in 1933, overcoming the "Twickenham bogey" that had haunted Wales. However, after the match against Ireland the same year, Thomas fell out with the selectors, who had selected a prop as flanker and a flanker as prop for the match. Thomas ignored this and played them in their usual positions, and never played for Wales again.

In 1936 he moved to Birmingham to teach at King Edward's School, and died there in 1977.

Biography

*Hughes, Gareth (1983) "One Hundred Years of Scarlet" (Llanelli Rugby Football Club) ISBN 0-9509159-0-4
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