Personal information | ||||||
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Full name | Emlyn Jenkins | |||||
Playing information | ||||||
Rugby union | ||||||
Club | ||||||
Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
–1930 | Treorchy RFC | |||||
1930–1931 | Cardiff RFC | 16 | ||||
Total | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Rugby league | ||||||
Position | Stand-off/Five-eighth | |||||
Club | ||||||
Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
1930–1940 | Salford | 246 | 88 | 44 | 0 | |
≥1939–≤1945 | St. Helens | |||||
Total | 246 | 88 | 44 | 0 | 0 | |
Representative | ||||||
Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
1932–1936 | Wales | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
1934–1934 | England | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
1933–1937 | Great Britain | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
Source: rugbyleagueproject.org englandrl.co.uk |
Emlyn Jenkins is a former rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1930s and '40s who at club level has played rugby union (RU) for Treorchy RFC[1] and Cardiff RFC,[2] and at representative level has played rugby league (RL) for Great Britain, Wales, and England, and at club level for Salford, and St. Helens, playing at Stand-off/Five-eighth, i.e number 6.[3]
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Emlyn Jenkins won caps for Wales while at Salford 1932…1936 4-caps, won caps for England while at Salford in 1934 against Australia, and France, and won caps for Great Britain while at Salford in 1933 against Australia; in 1936 against Australia (3 matches), and New Zealand (2 matches); and in 1937 against Australia (3 matches).[4]
Only four rugby league footballers have played initially for Wales, and then subsequently for England, they are; Emlyn Jenkins, Gus Risman, Jim Sullivan, and Les White.
Emlyn Jenkins was one of the players who successfully toured in France with Salford in 1934, during which the Salford team earned the name "Les Diables Rouges", the seventeen players were; Joseph "Joe" Bradbury, Robert "Bob" Brown, Aubrey Casewell, Patrick "Paddy" Dalton, Hubert "Bert" Day, Clifford "Cliff" Evans, John "Jack" Feetham, George Harris, Barney Hudson, Emlyn Jenkins, Alf Middleton, Samuel "Sammy" Miller, Harold Osbaldestin, Leslie "Les" Pearson, Gus Risman, William "Billy" Watkins, and William "Billy" Williams