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| Born | Maurice Charles Rees Richards 2 February 1945 Ystrad, Rhondda, Wales | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Wing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Fullback, Centre | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Maurice Charles Rees Richards (born 2 February 1945)[2] is a Welsh former dual-code international rugby footballer. A wing, he was part of the 1968 British Lions tour to South Africa.
Richards played rugby union at club level for Cardiff, and the Wales national rugby union team, famously scoring four tries in a Five Nations match against England, before switching to rugby league in 1969 with Salford.[1][3]
- ^ a b "Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org (RL)". rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
- ^ Maurice Richards rugby union profile ESPN
- ^ Graham Williams, Peter Lush, David Farrar (November 2009). "The British Rugby League Records Book [Page—108…114]". London League Publications Ltd. ISBN 978-1-903659-49-6