Don Devereux
Birth nameDonald Brian Devereux
Date of birth(1932-10-18)18 October 1932
Place of birthNeath, Wales[1]
Date of death8 February 1995(1995-02-08) (aged 62)
Place of deathResolven, Wales
Height6 ft 01 in (185 cm)
Weight13 st 8 lb (190 lb; 86 kg)
SchoolGlynneath School
UniversitySt. Luke's College, Exeter
Occupation(s)teacher
Rugby league career
Position(s) Second-row
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1958-63 Huddersfield RLFC ()
Rugby union career
Position(s) Prop
Amateur team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
– Glynneath RFC ()
?-1958 Neath RFC ()
– London Welsh RFC ()
– Exeter Chiefs ()
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1958 Wales[2] 3 (0)

Don Devereux (18 October, 1932 – 8 February 1995) was a Welsh international prop who played rugby union for Neath and rugby league for Huddersfield. He won three caps for the Wales rugby union team and also represented Wales at schools and youth level.

Rugby career

Devereux was born in Neath, but played for second class team Glynneath before moving to one of Wales's biggest clubs Neath. Devereux made his Wales début against the 1958 touring Australian team, and the next year played in two games in the 1958 Five Nations Championship under the captaincy of Clem Thomas. Of the three games Devereux played he was never on the losing side, with Wales winning two of the matches, and drawing one against England. In 1958, Devereux ended his rugby union international career by switching to the professional rugby league team Huddersfield.

Devereux played Left-second-row, i.e. number 11, in Huddersfield's 10-16 defeat by Wakefield Trinity in the 1960 Yorkshire County Cup Final during the 1960–61 season at Headingley Rugby Stadium, Leeds on Saturday 29 October 1960.

Devereux returned to Wales in 1963 to take up a teaching post. He built a sound reputation as a schoolboy rugby coach, and later became coach of the Welsh Secondary Schools squad, but objections were raised regarding his past associations with rugby league and Devereux relinquished his role.[3]

International matches played

Wales[4]

Bibliography

  • Smith, David; Williams, Gareth (1980). Fields of Praise: The Official History of The Welsh Rugby Union. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 0-7083-0766-3.

References

  1. ↑ Ospreys player profiles
  2. ↑ Welsh Rugby Union player profiles
  3. ↑ Cleary, Mick; Rothmans Rugby Union Yearbook 1995-96, Headline Book Publishing, pg. 431 ISBN 0-7472-7816-4
  4. ↑ Smith (1980), pg 465.
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