Ronnie Morris (rugby Union)
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Ronald Rhys Morris (13 June 1913 – February ) was a Welsh rugby player. He was a member of the Bristol Rugby Football Club from 1933 to 1937 and played for Swansea and
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 ...
. Morris was born in
Carmarthen Carmarthen (, RP: ; cy, Caerfyrddin , "Merlin's fort" or "Sea-town fort") is the county town of Carmarthenshire and a community in Wales, lying on the River Towy. north of its estuary in Carmarthen Bay. The population was 14,185 in 2011, ...
. He played outside-half and was capped twice, both times against
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, making his debut in the
1933 Home Nations Championship The 1933 Home Nations Championship was the twenty-ninth series of the rugby union Home Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Five Nations, and prior to that, the Home Nations, this was the forty-sixth series of the nort ...
loss to the Scots and concluding his international career with a second loss in the corresponding fixture of the
1937 Home Nations Championship The 1937 Home Nations Championship was the thirty-third series of the rugby union Home Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Five Nations, and prior to that, the Home Nations, this was the fiftieth series of the norther ...
. He died in
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