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Item
JY078
Object ID
JY078
Type
Rights Holder
CIC
Provenance
Claude Davey
Season
Description
Jersey, Wales, 1936. Red with P.O.W. feathers on breast, black armband on left sleeve and black "D" on white rectangle on back.
Info
This is Swansea and Wales centre Claude Davey's jersey from the international against Scotland at Murrayfield on 1st February 1936. Letters replaced numbers on Welsh jerseys for a period in the 1930s. The backs were given 'A' to 'G' corresponding to 15 to 9. Forwards were given 'H' to 'O' corresponding to 1 to 8. Davey was Welsh captain and both teams wore black armbands to mark the death of King George V (20th January). Wales won the match by 13 - 3 and Claude Davey was joined in the Welsh side by Idwal Rees, Haydn Tanner and Eddie Long. Both Tanner and Davey scored tries in the match. Davey played 23 times for Wales, captaining the side 8 times. Renowned as a ferocious tackler and devastating runner, he was the Scott Gibbs of his day and scored two of Swansea's three tries in the club's famous win over the 1935 'All Blacks'.
Keywords
jersey, wales, claude davey, 1935-1936, 1936, king george v,
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