Maurice Richards

Maurice Richards
Personal information
BornMaurice Charles Rees Richards
(1945-02-02) 2 February 1945 (age 79)
Ystrad, Rhondda, Wales
Playing information
Rugby union
PositionWing
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
196?–69 Cardiff RFC
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1968–69 Wales 9 21
1969 British Lions 3 0
Rugby league
PositionFullback, Centre
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1969–83 Salford 498 297 32 0 956
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1969–75 Wales 3 0 0 0 0
1974 Great Britain[1] 2 0 0 0 0

Maurice Charles Rees Richards (born 2 February 1945)[2] is a Welsh former dual-code international rugby footballer. A wing, he was part of the 1968 British Lions tour to South Africa.

Richards played rugby union at club level for Cardiff, and the Wales national rugby union team, famously scoring four tries in a Five Nations match against England, before switching to rugby league in 1969 with Salford.[1][3]

  1. ^ a b "Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org (RL)". rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  2. ^ Maurice Richards rugby union profile ESPN
  3. ^ Graham Williams, Peter Lush, David Farrar (November 2009). "The British Rugby League Records Book [Page—108…114]". London League Publications Ltd. ISBN 978-1-903659-49-6