Emlyn Davies


Emlyn Price Davies 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.
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 1947-48 Australian [rugby union tour of Europe and North America|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.

International matches played

Wales