Stan Owen

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Stan Owen
Personal information
Full nameStanley G. Owen
Born(1929-03-07)7 March 1929
Greater Manchester, England
Playing information
Rugby union
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
Pontypridd RFC
Rugby league
PositionProp
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1951–64
Leigh
415 44 0 0 132
1964 St Helens 12 1 0 0 3
1964–68 Rochdale Hornets 95
1968–69 Blackpool Borough 21
Total 543 45 0 0 135
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1958
English League XIII
1965 Other Nationalities 1
1955–63 Wales 2
1958 Great Britain 1 0 0 0 0
Coaching information
Club
Years Team Gms W D L W%
1969 Blackpool Borough
Source: [1]

Stanley "Stan" G. Owen (7 March 1932 – 12 September 2019) was a Welsh

Background

Stan Owen was born in Pontypridd, Wales, and he died aged 90 in Wigan Infirmary, His brother Samuel lived in Pontypridd and died in 1993. Wigan, Greater Manchester, England.[5]

Playing career

Owen signed for Leigh in November 1951 and in a 13-year stay at the club made 415 appearances for the club, second only in number of appearances for Leigh to Albert Worrall. He played for Leigh in the 4–15 defeat by St. Helens in the 1963–64 Lancashire Cup Final at Knowsley Road on Saturday 26 October 1963. In 1964 he transferred to St. Helens but after playing only 12 games for St. Helens he transferred to Rochdale Hornets for whom he made 95 appearances between 1964 and 1968 including Rochdale's 5–16 defeat by Warrington in the 1965–66 Lancashire Cup Final at Knowsley Road, on Friday 29 October 1965. His final move was to join Blackpool Borough in 1968 where he made 21 appearances before retiring from playing and became Borough's coach.[6]

International honours

Stan Owen won a cap for Great Britain (RL) while at Leigh in 1958 against France,[1] and represented Other Nationalities (RL) while at Rochdale Hornets, he played left-prop, in the 2-19 defeat by St. Helens at Knowsley Road, St. Helens on Wednesday 27 January 1965, to mark the switching-on of new floodlights.[7]

Stan Owen also represented

Stadium Municipal, Toulouse
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References

  1. ^ a b "Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org". rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  2. ^ "Statistics at leighrl.co.uk". leighrl.co.uk. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
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  4. ^ "In Memory Of Stan Owen". leighrl.co.uk. 31 December 2018. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  5. ^ a b "RIP Stan Owen". Wales Rugby League. 13 September 2019. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
  6. ^ "Stan Owen - Leigh's mighty Welshman". Rugby League Journal. No. 69. 2019. p. 33.
  7. ^ Cook, H.B. (1965). Programme - St. Helens versus Other Nationalities. St. Helens Rugby F.C. Ltd.
Sporting positions
Preceded by
Coach

Blackpool Borough

1969
Succeeded by
Joe Egan
1970-1972

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