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Rugby union has a long history in Wales. Today it holds tier one status with the IRB. However, compared to Scotland, England, and Ireland, it was a latecomer on the international scene, and was not initially successful. Rugby union is the national sport of Wales, and is a great influence on Welsh culture.
Including the previous Home Nations Championships, this was the forty-third series of the annual northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played between 1 January and 21 April. It was contested by England, France, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Ten matches were played between 1 January and 6 April. It was contested by England, France, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Shortly after the tournament, France was expelled from the competition amid allegations of professionalism in the domestic game (rugby union was officially an amateur sport until 1995) and perceived administrative deficiencies.
Rugby-like games have a long history in Wales, with games such as cnapan being played for centuries. [4] Rugby seems to have reached Wales in 1850, when the Reverend Professor Rowland Williams brought the game with him from Cambridge to St. David's College, Lampeter, [5] which fielded the first Welsh rugby team that same year.
The 1937 Home Nations Championship was the thirty-third series of the rugby union Home Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Five Nations, and prior to that, the Home Nations, this was the fiftieth series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Six matches were played between 16 January and 3 April.
18 January - Bobby Lloyd, rugby player, 41; 26 January - Harry Jones, rugby player, 51; 25 March - John Gwenogvryn Evans, palaeographer, 78 [32] 1 May - Richard Bell, politician, 70; 28 May - Cliff Williams, Wales international rugby union player, 32 [33] 15 June - John Cynddylan Jones, theologian, 90 [34] 17 June - Hugh Robert Jones ...
Wales: 5–5 Draw 18 January 1930 Cardiff Arms Park/National Stadium Wales England: 3–11 1930 Five Nations Championship England: 1 February 1930 Murrayfield Stadium Scotland Wales: 12–9 Scotland: 8 March 1930 St. Helen's Wales Ireland: 12–7 Wales: 21 April 1930 Colombes France Wales: 0–11 Wales: 17 January 1931 Twickenham Stadium England
Including the previous Home Nations Championships, this was the forty-second series of the annual northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played between 31 December 1928 and 1 April 1929. It was contested by England, France, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.