Name Alex Kersey-Brown | Died November 30, 2015 | |
Alexander "Alex" Kersey-Brown (18 November 1942 – 23 November 2015) was a Welsh rugby union and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s, playing club level rugby union (RU) for London Welsh RFC, and playing representative level rugby league (RL) for Wales, and at club level for Huddersfield, and Oldham, as a wing, or centre, i.e. number 2 or 5, or, 3 or 4.
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International honours
Kersey-Brown won two caps for Wales (RL) in 1968–1972 while at Huddersfield.
Playing career
Kersey-Brown played as a school boy and gained Welsh Caps. He lived in Penmaenmawr, North Wales, and a few of his later team members in London Welsh knew him there and played rugby with him, such as Tony Gray. The London Welsh Team was led by John Dawes who had a specific training programme in the early 1960s which honed the team and contributed later to the success of The British Lions team 1971-73.
The secret of their success was the injection of John Dawes. Many of the team had been together as Rugby School Boys and had won Welsh Caps from that time as Kersey-Brown had done. He was tall and very swift and had a natural athletic ability. He played in the centre and wings to utilise his tremendous running. The games at London Welsh were very exciting and entertaining and drew bigger crowds as time went on. He was with London Welsh during its enormous upturn in success in 1962-67 but left to turn professional; something in those days was severely frowned upon by Unionists.
Kersey-Brown joined Huddersfield in November 1967. His playing was known for its swiftness and weaving in and around players to get to his tries. The modern team has a venue is completely different from the original venue and a comparison would be a very interesting and historically useful research for someone to do. He did well at first at Fartown but he was badly injured and he left in 1972. He also had a brief spell at Oldham in 1970. He died of cancer on 23 or 24 November 2015, aged 73 or 75 (reports conflict).