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Gowerton: A conveyor belt of talent for Wales

Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools

AS YOU might expect in such a rugby-daft area many great players have been spawned by Gowerton school in its various guises – county grammar school and then comprehensive – but the conveyor belt of top-quality talent didn’t get under-way until after World War 1 when lock Gwyn Francis became their first international.
Francis won a Blue at Oxford in 1919, the same year he was capped against the New Zealand Services XV, and was then one of the many Welsh schoolmasters who made their life over the border in England. ...

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