Stan Owen

{{Short description|Welsh RL coach and former GB & Wales international rugby league footballer (1932–2019)}}

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|name = Stan Owen

|fullname = Stanley G. Owen

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|birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1929|3|07}}

|birth_place = Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales

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|death_place = Wigan, Greater Manchester, England

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|source = {{cite web|url=http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/players/stan-owen/summary.html|title=Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org|publisher=rugbyleagueproject.org|date=31 December 2017|access-date=1 January 2018}}

|updated = 9 June 2009

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Stanley G. Owen (7 March 1932 – 12 September 2019) was a Welsh rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s. He played club level rugby union (RU) for Pontypridd RFC, and representative level rugby league (RL) for Great Britain, Wales, Other Nationalities and English League XIII, and at club level for Leigh,{{cite web|url=https://leighrl.co.uk/wp/team_member/owen-stan|title=Statistics at leighrl.co.uk|publisher=leighrl.co.uk|date=31 December 2017|access-date=1 January 2018}} St. Helens, Rochdale Hornets and Blackpool Borough, as a {{rlp|pr}}.{{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}}{{cite web|url=https://leighrl.co.uk/wp/blog/2019/09/12/in-memory-of-stan-owen/|title=In Memory Of Stan Owen|publisher=leighrl.co.uk|date=31 December 2018|access-date=1 January 2019}}

Background

Stan Owen was born in Pontypridd, Wales, and he died aged 90 in Wigan Infirmary, His brother Samuel lived in Pontypridd and died in 1993. Wigan, Greater Manchester, England.{{cite web |title=RIP Stan Owen |url=https://wrl.wales/rip-stan-owen |publisher=Wales Rugby League |date=13 September 2019 |access-date=10 December 2020}}

Playing career

Owen signed for Leigh in November 1951 and in a 13-year stay at the club made 415 appearances for the club, second only in number of appearances for Leigh to Albert Worrall. He played for Leigh in the 4–15 defeat by St. Helens in the 1963–64 Lancashire Cup Final at Knowsley Road on Saturday 26 October 1963. In 1964 he transferred to St. Helens but after playing only 12 games for St. Helens he transferred to Rochdale Hornets for whom he made 95 appearances between 1964 and 1968 including Rochdale's 5–16 defeat by Warrington in the 1965–66 Lancashire Cup Final at Knowsley Road, on Friday 29 October 1965. His final move was to join Blackpool Borough in 1968 where he made 21 appearances before retiring from playing and became Borough's coach.{{cite magazine |title=Stan Owen - Leigh's mighty Welshman |magazine=Rugby League Journal |issue=69 |date=2019 |page=33}}

=International honours=

Stan Owen won a cap for Great Britain (RL) while at Leigh in 1958 against France, and represented Other Nationalities (RL) while at Rochdale Hornets, he played at {{rlp|pr}}, in the 2-19 defeat by St. Helens at Knowsley Road, St. Helens on Wednesday 27 January 1965, to mark the switching-on of new floodlights.{{cite book |last=Cook |first= H.B. |year=1965 |title=Programme - St. Helens versus Other Nationalities |publisher= St. Helens Rugby F.C. Ltd}}

Stan Owen also represented English League XIII (RL) playing at {{rlp|pr}} in the 19–8 victory over France at Headingley, Leeds on Wednesday 16 April 1958, and Wales (RL) while at Leigh in a non-Test match on Thursday 19 May 1955 against France 'B' at Stade Marcel Saupin, Nantes, and in a non-Test match on Sunday 17 February 1963 against France at Stadium Municipal, Toulouse.