George Herbert Gould (18 April 1870 – 19 December 1913) was a

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international

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centre who played club rugby for Newport Rugby Football Club and won three caps for

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. Gould is best known within the sport of rugby as the brother of Arthur 'Monkey' Gould, one of the first superstars of Welsh rugby.

Rugby career

Gould was one of five brothers who played rugby for Newport, including Welsh internationals Arthur and

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. Bert was first chosen to represent Wales himself as part of the

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. Under the captaincy of his brother Arthur, Gould was chosen to play in the last of the games of the tournament against Ireland. The Welsh team lost the game, but Gould kept his pace for the opening game of the next season's Championship. The Welsh selectors, had initially chosen Conway Rees to play, but an injury allowed Gould back into the teamSmith (1980), pg 88. for the second game of the 1893 Championship in a game away to Scotland. Gould scored one of three tries in the first away win to Scotland in the country's history. With the Scottish and English games already won, Wales needed to beat the Irish to lift the

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for the first time in the country's history. Gould scored the only points of the game at

Stradey Park Stradey Park (Welsh: ''Parc y Strade'') was a rugby union stadium located near the centre of the town of Llanelli in Carmarthenshire, Wales. It was the home of the Scarlets region and Llanelli RFC rugby teams. The stadium was a combination o ...

when he scraped the ball in at the corner flag to win the game for the Welsh team.Smith (1980), pg 89. By the next season, Gould had travelled to

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to complete civil engineering work. He later moved to

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, and turned out for both the King William's Town Pirates and the Johannesburg Wanderers.

International matches played

WalesSmith (1980), pg 466. * 1892, 1893 * 1893

References

Bibliography

External links

Newport RFC player profiles
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