St. Davids Rugby Football Club is a 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...

 team from the city of St. Davids in Wales

Wales

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. The club is a member of the Welsh Rugby Union

Welsh Rugby Union

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 and is a feeder club for the Llanelli Scarlets

Llanelli Scarlets

The Scarlets are one of the four professional Welsh regional rugby union teams. Based in Llanelli, south-west Wales the team play at the Parc y Scarlets stadium. They play in the RaboDirect Pro12, as well as competing in the LV= Cup and the Heineken Cup...

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The club was formed in 1953 and set its first trials for membership at St David's Grammar School. Although a poor opening season saw the first team fail to win a single game, the club continued, and by the 1955/56 season they had purchased their own playing ground. In the 1963/64 season the club had built a clubhouse and in 1977 the team joined the Pembrokeshire League. During the clubs 25th anniversary they hosted first class team Pontypridd

Pontypridd RFC

Pontypridd Rugby Football Club, known as Ponty, are a rugby union team from Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, currently playing in the British and Irish Cup, Principality Premiership, and are the current SWALEC Cup champions....

 and for their 40th anniversary faced the 'Welsh All Blacks', Neath

Neath RFC

Neath Rugby Football Club is a Welsh rugby union club which plays in the Welsh Premier Division. The club's home ground is The Gnoll, Neath. The first team is known as the Welsh All Blacks because of the team colours: black with only a white cross pattée as an emblem...

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Like many rugby clubs, St. Davids has undertaken several rugby tours, including trips to Ireland, England and France. The team has seen several players selected for Welsh schoolboy rugby and their most notable ex-player is Rowland Phillips

Rowland Phillips

Rowland David Phillips is a former rugby union back row forward for Wales where he won 10 caps between 1987-90. He also played rugby union for Neath RFC before moving to rugby league, playing for Warrington, and Workington Town.He also played for Wales and Great Britain rugby league teams...

, who not only played for first class team Neath, but also played for the Wales

Wales national rugby union team

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 national team. Phillips won ten caps for his country, his first was against the United States

United States national rugby union team

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in 1987.