DURING this year's Six Nations, we have been looking at the Amman, Swansea and Tywi Valleys rugby players who have represented Wales since 1881.

Here we take a look at some more.

Tom Evans

Thomas Henry Evans was born on December 31, 1882, in Ammanford. He was a police sergeant and played flanker for Ammanford RFC, captaining the club at the age of 19.

He played for Wales 18 times, his debut coming in the 1906 Home Nations Championship against Ireland. He was chosen again for the 1907 championship, playing in all three games. He only played the final game of the 1908 championship, winning the Triple Crown for the first time.

That same year he played for Wales against Australia in their first tour, two months after he captained Llanelli in their match against the team – the first loss of Australia’s tour – with Tom scoring the winning try.

In 1909, he played in the three games in the Home Nations Championship, getting a second Triple Crown. In 1910, France joined the tournament, renaming it the Five Nations. He played in the 1910 and 1911 championships, winning a third Triple Crown and a first Grand Slam victory in 1911. He scored his only international try in his final match against Ireland in 1911.

In his 18 caps, he only lost three games.

Philip Hopkins

Phil Hopkins was born on January 31, 1880, in Pontardawe. He played for his hometown club before moving to Swansea. In 1908, he played the Australian team on three occasions, at club, county and international level, including making his Welsh debut.

He scored a try on his debut and was selected for the England and Ireland matches of the 1909 Home Nations Championship, scoring a try in each game, becoming part of the Triple Crown winning team.

He played one more game for Wales, in the 1910 Five Nations Championship against England.

Wyn Jones

South Wales Guardian: Wyn Jones

Wyn Jones was born on February 26, 1992, in Llandovery.

He plays rugby in the prop position and began playing for Llandovery RFC’s Under8s side. He played for the club throughout his youth and represented their second side as well as the main team. He played for Llandovery RFC in the Welsh Premiership for six seasons before moving on to the Scarlets squad in 2014. He played for the Drovers more than 90 times.

Wyn scored a try in the Drovers’ WRU National Cup final against Carmarthen Quins in 2016, helping the team to a 25-18 win.

He made his Scarlets debut on January 24, 2014, against Gloucester in the Anglo-Welsh Cup and he featured in the Scarlet’s win over Leinster in the 2017 Guinness Pro12 final.

He made his Wales debut as a replacement against Tonga in the 2017 summer tour to New Zealand. At the time of writing, according to the Welsh Rugby Union’s website, he has 46 caps for his country, which includes the 2019 Six Nations Grand Slam win and the 2019 Rugby World Cup where he started in three of the four group games, quarter-final and semi-final.

He also won the Six Nations Championship in 2021 and has scored two tries – one against England in the 2019 Rugby World Cup warm up match and one against Scotland in the 2021 Six Nations.

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Ike Fowler

Isaac John Fowler, known as Ike, was born in Pantyffynnon on August 27, 1894, and played for Ammanford and Llanelli as a scrum half.

He played for Llanelli in 1919 against New Zealand Army and New Zealand Maoris. He won his only Wales rugby union cap against a New Zealand Army team. He went on to join Batley in rugby league before he could receive his second cap, being banned from playing rugby union for life as was standard punishment. He didn’t even receive his international cap until an ‘amnesty’ in 1975.

He gained two more international caps in rugby league.

Edgar Morgan

Edgar Morgan was born in Pontardawe on April 15, 1882, playing rugby for Alltwen RFC, Pontardawe RFC and Swansea RFC.

He was involved in the Swansea RFC victories against Australia and South Africa in 1908 and 1912. He made his British Lions debut in the 1908 tour of New Zealand and Wales, however, didn’t make his Welsh debut until the 1914 Five Nations tournament, making his debut against England and playing in all four games for his only four caps.

Tudor Williams

Tudor Williams was born on December 23, 1898, in Cwarterbach, just outside Brynaman,

Not much is known about him, but he made one appearance for Wales in 1921 against France in the Five Nations Championship before he died a year later at the age of 23 in Gwaun Cae Gurwen.

David Hiddlestone

David ‘Dai’ Hiddlestone was born on June 14, 1890, in Hendy. He played for the village’s local club, Llanelli and Neath.

He made his debut for Wales in 1922 against England in the Home Nations Championship, scoring a try and being credited as one of the main reasons Wales won the game so comfortably. He played in the remaining three games of the tournament and made the last of his five appearances in a controversial game against New Zealand in 1924, where he led the Welsh team in a responsive ‘war dance’ after the Haka.

Joseph Jones

Joseph Jones was born in Pontardawe on March 15, 1899. He played as a centre for Ystradgynlais RFC and Swansea RFC. He played one international game for Wales in rugby union against France in 1924. He switched to rugby league that same year and played one game for Wales rugby league.

Edwin Williams

Edwin ‘Eddie’ Williams was born on July 1, 1898, in Cwmllynfell. He played both rugby union and rugby league.

He played as a fly-half in rugby union for Swansea RFC and Neath RFC.

His first Wales rugby union cap came on November 29, 1924, against New Zealand, with his second and final cap coming against France on February 28 the following year.

He moved to rugby league, playing as stand-off for Huddersfield. He gained one cap for Wales rugby league on November 14, 1928, against England.

Guy Morgan

Guy Morgan was born in Garnant on December 26, 1907.

He represented Wales Secondary Schools and won four varsity marches for Cambridge University against Oxford University.

His first Welsh cap came while he was still in university, playing against France at St Helens in 1927. He had a stand-out game, scoring a try and assisting in four other tries.

He played eight times for Wales in total, captaining the side for the first time on February 2, 1929, aged 22. He played one game against Scotland, one against England, three against France and three against Ireland. He captained Wales four times.

We will look at more internationals next week.