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Dai Rees (rugby)

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Name
  
Dai Rees

Role
  
Coach


Height
  
1.80 m

Weight
  
79 kg

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Club
  
Abercarn RFC, Newbridge RFC, Newport RFC, Cross Keys RFC

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David "Dai" Rees was a Welsh rugby union and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1920s, and 1930s, and coached in the 1930s to the 1960s, playing club level rugby union (RU) for Abertillery RFC, and representative level rugby league (RL) for Great Britain, Wales, Other Nationalities, and Glamorgan & Monmouthshire, and at club level for Halifax, as a second-row, i.e. number 11 or 12, during the era of contested scrums, and coaching at club level for Bradford Northern for 24 years when they won every honour in the game.

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International honours

Dai Rees won a cap for Other Nationalities (RL) while at Halifax, won 6 caps for Wales (RL) in 1921–32 while at Halifax, and won a cap for Great Britain (RL) while at Halifax in 1926 against New Zealand.

Dai Rees was selected for Great Britain while at Halifax for the 1924 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand, he did not play in any of the Test matches on this tour.

County Honours

Dai Rees won a cap for Glamorgan & Monmouthshire while at Halifax.

Challenge Cup Final appearances

Dai Rees played left-second-row, i.e. number 11, in Halifax's 22-8 victory over York in the 1931 Challenge Cup Final during the 1930–31 season at Wembley Stadium, London on Saturday 2 May 1931, in front of a crowd of 40,368.

Honoured at Halifax

Dai Rees is a Halifax Hall Of Fame Inductee.

References

Dai Rees (rugby) Wikipedia