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Sport: Rugby, Cricket, Boxing, Athletics

Sport in Wales usually means Rugby, it seems to overshadow some great achievments Welsh sportsmen and women have made in Boxing, Athletics, Cricket and Football. Our list of welsh sport personalities includes well known names like Alf Sherwood , Ryan Giggs , Ian Lougher and many more - including some here time has overlooked...

Haydon Morris, sportsman with a connection to Wales (Barry)

Haydon Morris His rugby career started in Bangor Normal College and later, Mountain Ash, Cardiff, Welsh Academicals and the Barbarians. His first international was played against France in 1951 and four years later against Ireland in Cardiff, where he scored the second of the four Welsh try's that brought a 21-3 victory. In 1955 he toured South Africa with the British Lions and scored a hat-trick of try's in his debut and six further tries in seven matches. Unfortunately injury curtailed his career.

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