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R.R.Morris Ronnie Morris was a Welsh Rugby International.

Born June 13 1913 in Carmarthen "little Ron" excelled at rugby, cricket and athletics at QES Carmarthen. He was picked for Swansea and Wales schools aged 17. He ran through the entire French team to score for the schools and when picked for Swansea he played over 120 games and was remarkably never dropped. He was top points scorer in 1933 and was picked for Wales aged 19. Controversially, as Wales best known player, Harry Bowcott played his last game for Wales with some dispute with the WRU. There were 4 great fly halves of the decade with Wales playing on average only 3 or 4 games a year. Caps were hard to come by. Morris moved to Bristol in 1935. Replaced in Swansea by WHT Davies who helped beat the All Blacks with his cousin at scrum half, Hayden Tanner. Cliff Jones who only played 22 times for Cardiff won 12 caps and like Davies is one of only 15 Union internationals in the Welsh Hall of Fame. Morris did well to be capped from Bristol in 1937 where he moved for business. Morris may have achieve more in the club and county game than his illustrious competitors, who he considered great friends and greatly admired. He played more than 100 times for Bristol also where in one season he dropped over 28 goals. He said it was impossible to do so in Pontypool where the old leather ball could be soaked in the bath! His proudest moment came in captaining Gloucestershire with a rare County Championship Final. Reports in the Times refer to his brilliant play combining with Bill Redwood. He scored the winning try after being initially injured in a 5-0 win. Jones, Davies and Morris never played for Wales again after the war, which came when they were in their mid to early twenties. Morris turned out a few times for Bath and captained Bristol United after the war as a cartilage injury affected him. He played cricket for Gloucestershire 2nd X1 and scores several hundreds for the Optimist C.C. He became a successful leader at Bristol chairing the selectors and proposing the creation of a national knock-out cup at the RFU. He became a Life Member of Bristol RFC ,and died in 1983.