Cecil Clifford Pritchard (1 May 1902 - 27 August 1966) was an international

rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the Comparison of rugby league and rugby union, two codes of ru ...

hooker who represented

Wales Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the Wales–England border, east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the ...

on eight occasions and was best associated at club level with

Pontypool RFC Pontypool Rugby Football Club is a Welsh rugby union team based in the town of Pontypool, which plays in the WRU Championship (known as the SWALEC Championship for sponsorship purposes). Due to the regionalisation of Welsh rugby in 2003, Pontyp ...

Personal history

Pritchard was born in the Tranch are of Pontypool, Wales in 1902. He was the second of three brothers who would all go on to have rugby careers. Pritchard work as a collier before later working for the local council. He died in

Newport, Wales Newport ( cy, Casnewydd; ) is a city and county borough in Wales, situated on the River Usk close to its confluence with the Severn Estuary, northeast of Cardiff. With a population of 145,700 at the 2011 census, Newport is the third-largest ...

in 1966.

Rugby career

Pritchard first played rugby for local team, Tranch Rovers, same as his elder brother George 'Cogley' and younger brother Royce. George played local rugby for

Blaenavon RFC Blaenavon Rugby Football Club are a Welsh rugby union club based in the town of Blaenavon, South Wales. Blaenavon RFC is one of the older members of the Welsh Rugby Union founded in 1877 in the Iron and coal town of Blaenavon and is a feeder club ...

before moving to the south west of England where he played for

Barnstaple RFC Barnstaple Rugby Football Club was established in 1877 and is a rugby union club based in Barnstaple, Devon. The club's first team play in the National League 2 West, the fourth tier of the English rugby union league system, following promotion ...

and

Torquay Athletic RFC Torquay Athletic RFC is an English rugby union team formed in 1876 that is based in Torquay, Devon. The club operates 5 senior men's teams as well as youth and mini teams, with the men's first team currently playing in Tribute Cornwall/Devon fol ...

International matches played

Wales * 1928, 1929 * 1928, 1929 * 1928, 1929 * 1928, 1929

Bibliography

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References

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