Personal information | ||||||
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Full name | Frank Shugars | |||||
Born | Wales | |||||
Playing information | ||||||
Rugby union | ||||||
Club | ||||||
Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
Penygraig | ||||||
Rugby league | ||||||
Position | Second-row | |||||
Club | ||||||
Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
1904–1912 | Warrington | 212 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 54 |
Representative | ||||||
Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
1909–1912 | Wales | 5 | ||||
1910–1910 | Great Britain | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Source: rugbyleagueproject.org englandrl.co.uk |
Frank Shugars was a Welsh rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1900s and '10s who at club level level played rugby union (RU) for Penygraig RFC, and at representative level played rugby league (RL) for Great Britain, and Wales, and at club level for Warrington, playing at Second-row, i.e. number 11 or 12, during the era of contested scrums.[1][2]
Frank Shugars won five caps for Wales (RL) while at Warrington between 1909 and 1912, all of them against England.
While at Warrington Shugars was selected to go on the 1910 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand and won caps for Great Britain against Australasia, and New Zealand.[3]