Steve Llewellyn

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Steve Llewellyn
Personal information
Full nameStewart Marshall Llewellyn
Born(1924-01-24)24 January 1924
Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent, Wales
Died10 December 2002(2002-12-10) (aged 78)
St Helens, Merseyside, England
Playing information
Rugby union
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1945–48 Abertillery
Rugby league
PositionWing
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1948–58 St. Helens 287 239 0 0 717
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1948–53 Wales 4 0 0 0 0
Other Nationalities ≥1
Source: [1]

Stewart Marshall "Steve" Llewellyn (29 February 1924 – 10 December 2002) was a Welsh

Championship, later being inducted into the clubs Hall of Fame.[1][2]

Llewellyn was born in

Abertyleri, Blaenau Gwent on 29 February 1924. He joined the Welsh Guards in 1943 and served in Italy during the Second World War. Having been playing rugby union for his hometown of Abertillery since 1945, Llewellyn signed with English rugby league
club St Helens in January 1948.

During the

1956 Lancashire Cup Final at Central Park, Wigan
on Saturday 20 October 1956.

Llewellyn was one of less than twenty Welshmen to have scored more than 200-tries in their rugby league career.[4] Only three players (Tom van Vollenhoven, Les Jones and Alf Ellaby) have scored more than his 240 tries for the St Helens club. In retirement, he stayed in St. Helen's, working as an English language and PE teacher, and later became deputy head at two local secondary schools. Llewellyn died in St Helens, Merseyside, in 2002.

References

  1. ^ a b "Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org (RL)". rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  2. ^ "Statistics at rugbyleague.wales". rugbyleague.wales. 31 December 2019. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
  3. ^ McCorquodale, London S.E (25 April 1953).
  4. ISBN 0-9511190-3-6

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