| Date of birth | 6 June 1959 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Pyle, Wales | ||||||||||||||||
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Howell Davies (born 6 June 1959) is a Welsh former rugby union international. [1]
Davies, raised in the village of Pyle, was a fullback and played his club rugby for Bridgend RFC, which included a prolific 422-point season in 1983/84. [2] He earned all four of his Wales caps in the 1984 Five Nations Championship and was their top scorer with 39 points, to set a Welsh tournament record. [3] His career was then curtailed by a series of knee injuries and by 1986 he had been forced into a premature retirement at the age of 27. [4]
See also
References
- ^ "Moneyspinner". South Wales Echo. 15 November 1988.
- ^ "Davies calls it a day". South Wales Evening Post. 17 July 1986.
- ^ "No cartilage worry for Davis ..." South Wales Echo. 9 January 1986.
- ^ "Davies says: 'I quit'". South Wales Echo. 17 July 1986.