Player

Rex Willis - Scrum-half

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Rex Willis
Height178
Weight78
Date Of Birth25/10/1924
Place Of BirthYstrad
EducationLlandaff Cathedral School
ClubsCardiff, Llandaff
HonoursWales, British and Irish Lions
InvitationalCrawshays
Rex Willis was born in Ystrad in 1924 and first played for Cardiff in 1947, joining from local club Llandaff. In a ten year stay at the Arms Park he played 208 games at scrum half and scoring 14 tries. In 1950 he won his first international call up and made 21 Welsh appearances between 1950 and 1955. Also in 1950 he was selected to tour Australasia with the British Lions.
In 1999 Rex Willis was elected into the Cardiff Rugby Hall of fame and more details about his career can be found in that section of the website.
Rex Willis died in Pontypridd in 2000 aged 76.
SEASON P W D L TRY CON PEN DG PTS
1947-1948 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1948-1949 12 11 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
1949-1950 26 17 3 6 1 0 0 0 3
1950-1951 23 17 2 4 2 0 0 0 6
1951-1952 23 18 0 5 0 0 0 0 0
1952-1953 12 10 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
1953-1954 32 26 2 4 5 0 0 0 15
1954-1955 34 29 3 2 3 0 0 0 9
1955-1956 23 15 1 7 1 0 0 0 3
1956-1957 9 8 1 0 2 0 0 0 6
1957-1958 15 10 3 2 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL 210 162 16 32 14 0 0 0 42
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