Player

Don Tarr - Hooker

Cardiff
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Don Tarr
Date Of Birth11/03/1910
Place Of BirthLlandeilo Fawr
EducationAmmanford County School
ClubsSwansea, Ammanford, Cardiff
RegionsHampshire
HonoursWales, Wales Schools
InvitationalBarbarians
Llandeilo born Donald Tarr began his rugby career as a schoolboy representing the Welsh Secondary Schools and playing for Ammanford. When he left school he joined the Royal Navy and playing rugby for joining Cardiff, playing 23 matches in the 1931 – 32 season and then Swansea from 1933, also playing for the Royal Navy, United Services and the Barbarians.
In 1935 he gained his only Welsh cap playing against the touring All Blacks. Wales won the game 13 – 12 but Tarr’s game had been cut short by an injury so serious that one journalist wrote, "Tarr probably came closer to dying on the pitch than anyone else ever has in an international", Tarr was carried from the field with a dislocated neck, his life had been saved by the referee, who advised the medical team treating Tarr to lay him face down on the stretcher.
Don Tarr passed away in Hampshire in 1980 at the age of 70.
SEASON P W D L TRY CON PEN DG PTS
TOTAL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
TEAM P W D L PF PA PTS
Llandovery 20 19 0 1 684 307 90
Newport 21 18 0 3 701 390 90
Ebbw Vale 20 14 0 6 615 384 71
Cardiff 21 12 1 8 579 492 63
Pontypridd 21 10 1 10 470 501 53
Pontypool 19 11 0 8 480 455 51
Merthyr 18 10 0 8 458 470 49
Aberavon 20 8 0 12 462 556 46
Bridgend Ravens 20 8 0 12 423 539 41
Swansea 19 5 0 14 377 540 30
RGC 1404 18 5 0 13 354 489 28
Carmarthen Quins 19 4 0 15 416 541 28
Neath 20 3 0 17 330 685 19