Frank Shugars

Francis "Frank" Shugars (c. 1875-1881 — April→June 1953 (aged 77)) born in Pontypridd, was a Welsh rugby union and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1900s, and 1910s, playing club level rugby union (RU) for Penygraig RFC, and playing representative level rugby league (RL) for Great Britain, Wales, and Lancashire, and at club level for Warrington, as a second-row, i.e. number 11 or 12, during the era of contested scrums, his death was registered in Warrington.

Frank Shugars won five caps for Wales (RL) while at Warrington between 1909 and 1912, all of them against England.

While at Warrington Shugars became their first player to become a Great Britain tourist when was selected to go on the 1910 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand and won caps for Great Britain against Australasia, and New Zealand.