Peter Davies (rugby)

{{Short description|Welsh rugby footballer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2016}}

{{Use British English|date=October 2016}}

{{Infobox rugby league biography

|first = RU

|name = Peter Davies

|fullname = Peter J. Davies

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|birth_date = 30 December 1925

|birth_place = Newport, Wales

|death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2014|2|18|1925|12|30}}

|death_place = Newport, Wales

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|weight = {{convert|14|st|0|lb|kg|abbr=on}}

|ru_position = Back-row

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|ru_club1 = {{nowrap|Ebbw Bridge Junction RFC}}

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|ru_club2 = Newport RFC

|ru_year2start = 19??

|ru_year2end = 53

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|club1 = Leigh

|year1start = 1953

|year1end = 56

|appearances1 = 48

|tries1 = 5

|goals1 = 23

|fieldgoals1 = 0

|points1 = 61

|updated = 12 January 2015

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Peter J. Davies (30 December 1925{{cite web|url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=%2BJGyhVgfoywxx8gJVD%2BwSg&scan=1|title=Birth details at freebmd.org.uk|publisher=freebmd.org.uk|date=31 December 2014|accessdate=1 January 2015}} – 18 February 2014) was a Welsh rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s and 1950s, and rugby union administrator.{{NoteTag|Not to be confused with the rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s for Balmain Tigers; the rugby league footballer (winger) of the 1980s for South Sydney Rabbitohs, Balmain Tigers, Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs; the rugby union (second row) and rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s for Neath RFC [https://web.archive.org/web/20150122171104/http://neathrugby.co.uk/News/Article/21522]}} He played club level rugby union (RU) for Ebbw Bridge Junction RFC and Newport RFC (vice-captain to Roy Burnett), in the back row, e.g. flanker, or number eight, and club level rugby league (RL) for Leigh, as a goal-kicking player,{{cite book| first1= Graham| last1= Williams| first2= Peter| last2= Lush| first3= David| last3= Farrar| title= The British Rugby League Records Book| publisher= London League| isbn= 978-1-903659-49-6| year= 2009| pages= 108–114}} he was later chairman, and then president, of Pill Harriers RFC.