Raymond Price (rugby)
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Full name | Harold Raymond Price | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 18 January 1924 Bedwellty, Wales | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | September 1988 (aged 64) Blaina, Wales | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Weight | 11 st 4 lb (72 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Fly-half/First Five-Eighth | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Stand-off | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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H. Raymond "Ray" Price (18 January 1924 – September 1988) was a Welsh rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s and 1950s. He was regarded as one of the finest post-war Stand-offs in the sport.[3]
At club level he played rugby union (RU) for Abertillery RFC, and at representative level he played rugby league (RL) for Great Britain, Other Nationalities and Wales. At club level he played for Belle Vue Rangers, Warrington and St. Helens.[1][4]
Background
Price was born in Blaina, Wales.
Playing career
International honours
Ray Price won caps for Wales (RL) while at Belle Vue Rangers 1948…1953 6-caps, won caps for Other Nationalities (RL) while at Warrington in 1955 2-caps, and won caps for Great Britain (RL) while at Warrington on the 1954 Great Britain Lions tour against Australia, and New Zealand (2 matches), in 1955 against New Zealand, in 1956 against Australia (3 matches), and in 1957 against France (2 matches).[1]
Ray Price was selected for the Great Britain Squad while at Warrington for the 1957 Rugby League World Cup in Australia. However, Ray Price did not participate in any of the three matches.
Ray Price also represented Great Britain while at Belle Vue Rangers between 1952 and 1956 against France (1 non-Test match).[5]
Championship final appearances
Ray Price played in
on Saturday 8 May 1954, in front of a crowd of 36,519.Challenge Cup Final appearances
Ray Price played
County Cup Final appearances
Ray Price played
Honoured at Warrington Wolves
Ray Price is a Warrington Wolves Hall of Fame inductee.[8]
References
- ^ a b c "Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org". rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
- ^ RL Record Keeper's Club
- ^ "Ray Price joins Warrington Hall of Fame". Warrington Guardian. UK: Newsquest Media Group. 4 May 2008. Retrieved 15 April 2010.
- ISBN 978-1-903659-49-6.
- ISBN 0-9548355-3-0
- ^ "Mud, blood and memories of the day when 102,575 made history at Odsal". independent.co.uk. 31 December 2016. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
- ^ "1947–1948 Lancashire Cup Final". wigan.rlfans.com. 31 December 2014. Archived from the original on 11 July 2018. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
- ^ "Hall of Fame at Wire2Wolves.com (archived)". wire2wolves.com. 31 December 2017. Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
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External links
- Profile at saints.org.uk
- U.K. League Hooker in Doubt
- (archived by web.archive.org) Hall of Fame at Wire2Wolves.com
- Statistics at wolvesplayers.thisiswarrington.co.uk