Rex Willis

Rex Willis

Willis in New Zealand in 1950
Birth name	William Rex Willis
Date of birth	(1924-10-25)25 October 1924
Place of birth	Ystrad, Rhondda, Wales
Date of death	19 January 2000(2000-01-19) (aged 75)
School	The Cathedral School, Llandaff Pangbourne Nautical College
Occupation(s)	businessman
Rugby union career
Position(s) Scrum half Amateur team(s) Years Team Apps (Points) ? ?-1956 1951–1954 Llandaff RFC Cardiff RFC Barbarian F.C.[1] ? ? 4 ? ? 0 International career Years Team Apps (Points) 1950–1955 1950 Wales[2] British Lions 21 3 (0) (0)

William Rex Willis (25 October 1924 – 19 January 2000) was a Welsh international rugby union scrum-half who played club rugby for Cardiff and invitational rugby for the Barbarians. He won 21 caps for Wales and was selected to play in the British Lions on the 1950 tour of Australia and New Zealand.

He played the last half-hour of the 1952 Five Nations Championship against Scotland with his jaw broken in several places.^[3][4][5]