Graham Bassett Dadds (16 March 1911 – 8 March 1980) was a British

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player who competed in the

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Biography

Dadds played club hockey for Swansea Nomads and between 1932 and 1955 played for Wales 36 times, which was a record at the time. He played for Glamorgan at county level but in 1946 had a break from hockey due to health reasons before returning to the Welsh side several years later. Dadds received the call up for the Olympics in May 1952 and was one of three Welshman in the team with John Paskin Taylor and Bill Lindsay-Smith. He subsequently represented

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in the field hockey tournament at the 1952 Olympic Games in

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. He played in the bronze medal match against Pakistan replacing

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who had started every match up to that point. Dadds was 42-years-old at the time. Dadds retired from playing in 1956 and later served as the president of the Welsh Hockey Association.

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dadds, Graham 1911 births 1980 deaths British male field hockey players Olympic field hockey players for Great Britain Field hockey players at the 1952 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain Olympic medalists in field hockey Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics