Harold Davies was a Welsh rugby union

Rugby union

Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

 player who represented Wales

Wales national rugby union team

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 and the British Lions

British and Irish Lions

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. Davies played club rugby for Newport and captained the team in the 1925/26 season.

Rugby career

Davies was first chosen to represent Wales in the 1922 Five Nations Championship

1922 Five Nations Championship

The 1922 Five Nations Championship was the eighth series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship following the inclusion of France into the Home Nations Championship. Including the previous Home Nations Championships, this was the thirty-fifth series of the annual northern hemisphere rugby...

 game against France, but was replaced shortly before kick off, along with Swansea's

Swansea RFC

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 Frank Palmer, by Cliff Richards

Cliff Richards (rugby player)

William Clifford 'Cliff' Richards was a Welsh international rugby union wing who played club rugby for Pontypool and Swansea and represented Wales at international level. Richards was a coal miner by trade, and worked in the pits all his adult life...

 and Islwyn Evans

Islwyn Evans

Haydn Islwyn Evans was a Welsh international rugby union player who played club rugby union for Swansea and Llanelli. Evans was capped four times for Wales, all during the 1922 Five Nations Championship.-Rugby career:...

. Davies was selected on one occasion in 1924 to represent Wales in an infamous game against Scotland

Scotland national rugby union team

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 at Inverleith. Wales were completely outclassed letting in eight tries. Although Davies was never selected to play for Wales again he was chosen to represent the British Lions in their 1924 tour of South Africa

1924 British Lions tour to South Africa

The 1924 British Isles tour to South Africa was the tenth tour by a British Isles team and the fifth to South Africa. The tour is retrospectively classed as one of the British Lions tours, as the Lions naming convention was not adopted until 1950...

. The 1924 tour was notorious for the amount of injuries suffered by the tourists, and Davies was called out at the late in the tour as a replacement. He played in just one game against South Africa, in the second test.