Charlie Newman
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Charlie Newman (28 February 1857 – 28 September 1922) was a Welsh international three-quarter who played club rugby for Newport. He was awarded ten caps for Wales and captained the team on six occasions.[4] An original member of the Newport squad he captained the team in the 1882/83 season.
Personal life
Newman was born
Tanfield in Durham from 1883 to 1887 before becoming the Curate of Low Fell a position he held from 1887 to 1893. In 1893 he left Low Fell to take up the position of rector at Hetton-le-Hole, before taking his final position as vicar
of Millfield until his death in 1922.
Rugby career
Newman played matches arranged by the South Wales Football Club, before the creation of the Welsh Rugby Union. In 1876 he was part of a team that was made up of Welsh player that faced Clifton, and in December the same year beat Hereford.[5]
Newman was selected to play in the
first Welsh international, against England in 1881. The Wales team was made up of players based more on reputation and background and was comprehensively beaten. Newman played the match at full back position, for the first, and last, time in his life,[6] though he was not the only Welsh player in the wrong position on that day. Newman won a total of ten caps for Wales, and on 5 January 1884, he was given the captaincy of Wales in a game against England. Newman would captain his team on six occasions, losing four and drawing two. After retiring from rugby he became an Anglican clergyman,[3] as would James Bevan and Edward Peake, both teammates of Newman in the first Welsh international.[7]
International matches played
Wales[8]
Bibliography
- Smith, David; Williams, Gareth (1980). Fields of Praise: The Official History of The Welsh Rugby Union. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 0-7083-0766-3.
References
- ^ Newport RFC player profile Archived June 17, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ WRU player profiles[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b c "Newman, Charles Henry (NWMN880CH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ "Wales' rugby captains". The BBC. 23 November 2007. Retrieved 2 September 2008.
- ^ Smith (1980), pg 31.
- ^ Smith (1980), pg 57.
- ^ Smith (1980), pg 7.
- ^ Smith (1980), pg 469.