The tributes to Wales's Horace Phillips, who died earlier this month, stated that his only cap was in a Grand Slam-clinching side? Have any other Welshmen won their sole caps in matches which sealed a Grand Slam? Anon
Horace Phillips died in Mumbles on December 11, aged 81. His only cap was against France on his home club ground at St Helen's in Swansea in 1952. Wales won a dour match 9-5 to take the Grand Slam for the fifth time.
Horace Phillips died in Mumbles on December 11, aged 81. His only cap was against France on his home club ground at St Helen's in Swansea in 1952. Wales won a dour match 9-5 to take the Grand Slam for the fifth time.
Wales originally selected en bloc the side that had beaten Ireland to clinch the Triple Crown for that Grand Slam game, but a calf-muscle injury forced Cliff Morgan to withdraw in the week before the match. In a back-line reshuffle, the selectors moved Alun Thomas from centre to fly-half, Lewis Jones transferred from left wing to centre and Horace Phillips filled the vacancy on the wing.
Only two other Welshmen won their sole caps in Grand Slam clinchers. In 1911, when Wales beat Ireland 16-0 at Cardiff, forward Billy Evans of Brynmawr was called in when Pontypool's Rees Thomas withdrew from the side owing to bereavement. And in 1976, Cardiff's Mike Knill came on as a front-row replacement for Pontypool's Graham Price in the 19-13 Grand Slam win against France at Cardiff.
Obituaries for John Moroney, the former Ireland wing, mentioned that he set a scoring record against France in 1969. Whose record did he eclipse? Anon
John Moroney died in Waterford Hospital on December 11, aged 64. He won six successive caps for Ireland in 1968 and 1969 and wasn't on a losing side until his final game.
John Moroney died in Waterford Hospital on December 11, aged 64. He won six successive caps for Ireland in 1968 and 1969 and wasn't on a losing side until his final game.
He made headlines in Ireland's opening Five Nations match of 1969 when he scored 14 points comprising a three-point try, conversion and three penalty goals in a 17-9 defeat of France to set a new individual record for most points in a Test for Ireland. It was their first win against the French for ten years.
The previous Irish record had been set by George Stephenson playing against Wales at Lansdowne Road in 1927. His tally of 13 points had been equalled by Barney Mullan in Ireland's 22-0 win against England, also in Dublin, in 1947.
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