Ernie Jenkins
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Birth name | Ernest Jenkins[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 20 September 1880 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Upper Cwmbran, Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 18 July 1958 | (aged 77)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Newport, Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occupation(s) | dock worker | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ernest Jenkins (20 September 1880 – 18 July 1958)[3] was a Welsh international dual-code international rugby player. He played club rugby union predominantly for Newport, and later switched codes by joining rugby league team Rochdale Hornets. While playing for Newport, Jenkins faced the three major Southern Hemisphere teams, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand.
International career
Jenkins made his début for Wales against Scotland at the Cardiff Arms Park on 5 February 1910 as part of the Five Nations Championship. It was a one-sided affair with Wales scoring 4 tries without reply, including one from fellow new cap Billy Spiller. Jenkins was reselected for the next match in the tournament, this time against Ireland. Wales won again, this time scoring five tries, the highest number scored by Wales in Ireland. With two wins out of two games, Jenkins should have been part of future Welsh teams, but turned professional in September 1910, joining rugby league team Rochdale Hornets, making him ineligible to play union in future.
His first game for the Hornets took place on 17 September 1910, and on 10 December he was selected for his first rugby league international when he was chosen to represent Wales against England at Coventry. He played a total of four league international between 1910 and 1912, three against England and a single encounter against Australia at Ebbw Vale.
County Cup Final appearances
Ernie Jenkins played as a forward in Rochdale Hornets' 12–5 victory over Oldham in the 1911–12 Lancashire Cup Final during the 1911–12 season at Wheater's Field, Broughton, Salford on Saturday 2 December 1911, in front of a crowd of 20,000.[4]
International games played
Wales (rugby union)[5]
Wales (rugby league)
England 1910, 1911, 1912
Australien 1911
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
- ^ Newport Rugby Club player profiles
- ^ Welsh Rugby Union player profiles[permanent dead link]
- ^ Ernie Jenkins Rugby union profile Scrum.com
- ^ Irvin Saxton (publish date tbc) "History of Rugby League – № 17 – 1911–12". Rugby Leaguer ISBN n/a
- ^ Smith (1980), pg 467.
- 1880 births
- 1958 deaths
- Dual-code rugby internationals
- Newport RFC players
- Rugby league players from Cwmbran
- Rochdale Hornets players
- Rugby union flankers
- Rugby union players from Cwmbran
- Wales international rugby union players
- Wales national rugby league team players
- Welsh rugby league players
- Welsh rugby union players