Vince Griffiths

Vince Griffiths
Rugby union career
Full name	Vincent Morgan Griffiths^[1]
Date of birth	(1901-05-29)29 May 1901
Place of birth	Pontypridd, Wales
Date of death	7 January 1967(1967-01-07) (aged 65)
Place of death	Newport, Wales
School	West Monmouth School
University	Bristol University
Playing career
Position	Outside Half
Amateur clubs
Years	Club / team
? 1923-1929	Pontypool RFC Newport RFC
National team(s)
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
1924 1924	Wales British Isles^[2]	3 2	(7) (0)

Vince Griffiths (29 May 1901 – 7 January 1967) was a Welsh rugby union player who represented Wales and the British Lions. Griffiths played club rugby for Newport and captained the team in the 1928/29 season.

Griffiths gained his first cap for Wales in 1924 against Scotland at Inverleith. Wales were humiliated by Scotland, but Griffiths scored a try and regained his position to be chosen to face Ireland in the next match of the Five Nations Championship. Griffiths's last game for Wales was against Ireland, but was chosen to join the British Lions 1924 tour of South Africa; he played in six games, including two tests.

International matches played

Wales^[3]

France 1924
France 1924
Scotland 1924

British Lions

South Africa 1924, 1924

Bibliography

Smith, David; Williams, Gareth (1980). Fields of Praise: The Official History of The Welsh Rugby Union. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 0-7083-0766-3.

References

Rugby Union Captain
Preceded by William Roche	Newport RFC Captain 1927-1929	Succeeded by Harry Phillips

British and Irish Lions – 1924 South Africa tour

Forwards	Blakiston (Blackheath) Bradley (Dolphin) Brand (North of Ireland FC) Clinch (Dublin University) Cove-Smith (Old Merchant Taylors) (capt) D.S. Davies (Hawick and Scotland) R.G. Henderson (Northern and Scotland) Hendrie (Heriots FP and Scotland) R.A. Howie (Kirkcaldy RFC and Scotland) Marsden-Jones (Cardiff and London Welsh) McPherson (Newport) McVicker (Collegians) Roche (UCC and Newport) Ross (Kilmarnock and Scotland) Voyce (Gloucester)

Backs	J.H. Bordass (Cambridge University) Cunningham (Lansdowne) H. Davies (Newport) Drysdale (Heriots FP and Scotland) W.F. Gaisford (St. Bart's Hospital) V. Griffiths (Newport) Holliday (Aspatria) Harris (Blackheath) Harding (Swansea) Kinnear (Heriots FP and Scotland) Maxwell (Birkenhead Park) Ian Smith (Oxford University and Scotland) Waddell (Glasgow Academicals and Scotland) Wallace (Percy Park) Whitley (Northern) Young (Blackheath)

Coach	Manager: Harry Packer

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