British Lions & Wales international rugby union footballer
Rugby player
Rowe Harding
Harding c. 1925
Birth name
W. Rowe Harding
Date of birth
(1901-09-10)10 September 1901
Place of birth
Birchgrove, Swansea,[1] Wales
Date of death
10 February 1991(1991-02-10) (aged 89)
Place of death
Gower, Wales
School
Gowerton Grammar School
Spouse
Elizabeth Harding
Occupation(s)
Judge
Rugby union career
Position(s)
Wing
Amateur team(s)
Years
Team
Apps
(Points)
1919–1920 1920 1920–1929 1926–1927 ? 1923–24
Loughor RFC Llanelli RFC Swansea RFC Cambridge University R.U.F.C. London Welsh RFC Barbarian F.C.
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International career
Years
Team
Apps
(Points)
1923–1928 1924
Wales[2] British Isles
17 3
(15) (0)
W. Rowe Harding (10 September 1901 – 10 February 1991) was a Welsh international rugby union wing who played club rugby for Swansea. An intelligent player, Harding played for several teams at club and international level. In 1926 he attended Cambridge University and played for Cambridge in a varsity match. Rowe retired from rugby at the age of 28 when he was called to the bar, and would later become a County Court judge in 1953. Harding spent his later life connected with all manner of sports. He was Welsh Rugby Union vice-president from 1953 to 1956, chairman and president of Glamorgan County Cricket Club, president of Swansea Lawn Tennis and Squash Rackets Club[3] and patron of Cwmgors RFC.
Harding was a published author of the rugby book, Rugby Reminiscences and Opinions which is noted for its forthright and blunt viewpoints on the issues affecting Welsh rugby at the time,[4] for example, while addressing the Welsh Rugby Union in 1950 "The Rugby League is only an infant, but it wants strangling."[5]
^Swansea RFC player profiles
^WRU player profile
^Swansea Lawn Tennis and Squash Club, History
^Thomas (1979), pg 64.
^"100 years of rugby league: From the great divide to the Super era". The Independent. 20 August 1995. Retrieved 1 January 2011.
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against France in the Five Nations Championship. Under the captaincy of RoweHarding, Stock was part of a ramshackle selection, caused by the late suspension...
lone spell as captain in the Scotland game, the Welsh were now led by RoweHarding, though the result remained the same. In a close game at the Cardiff...
game against England, which was also the last game for Wales captain RoweHarding. Bowdler played out the entirety of the 1928 Five Nations Championship...
1963 the first clubhouse was opened by former Welsh international Judge RoweHarding, which was followed by silverware in the 1964/65 season when they won...
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p. 224. Harvey (2007), p. 406. Jeffery (1907), p. xviii. Dacombe, Rowe & Harding (1928), p. 38. Peters & Beveridge (2010), pp. 29–30. Peters & Beveridge...
in the Clydach district. Albert Harding, father of former Welsh international and British Lion winger Judge RoweHarding, is credited as being the pioneer...
broken when RoweHarding took the Welsh team Swansea touring there to play national champions Locomotiva. On his return to the UK, Harding spoke highly...
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Tudor-Hart, doctor and political activist (died 1992) 10 September – RoweHarding, Wales and British Lions rugby player (died 1991) 9 November – Rhys Davies...
programmer. William Foley, 59, Australian Roman Catholic archbishop. RoweHarding, 89, Welsh rugby player. Bernard Lee, 55, American civil rights activist...
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