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{{short description|Wales international rugby union footballer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox rugby biography
| name = Tom Rees
| image =
| caption =
| birth_name = Thomas James Rees<ref>[http://www.blackandambers.co.uk/Personnel.aspx?pr=100687 Newport RFC player profiles] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110617051259/http://www.blackandambers.co.uk/Personnel.aspx?pr=100687 |date=2011-06-17 }}</ref>
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1913|05|08}}
| birth_place = [[Fleur-de-Lys, Caerphilly]] [[Wales]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1991|02|19|1913|05|08}}
| death_place = [[Fleur-de-Lys, Caerphilly]], [[Wales]]
| height =
| weight =
| position = [[Prop (rugby union)|Prop]]
| amatyears1 =
| amatyears2 = 1934-1939
| amatteam1 = [[Ebbw Vale RFC]]
| amatteam2 = [[Newport RFC]]
| amatteam3 = [[Abertillery RFC]]
| amatteam4 = [[Cross Keys RFC]]
| amatteam5 = [[Pontypool RFC]]
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| repteam1 = [[Wales national rugby union team|Wales]]<ref>[https://archive.today/20110526104149/http://www.wru.co.uk/12750_14256.php?player=26266&includeref=dynamic WRU player profiles]</ref>
| repyears1 = 1935-1937
| repcaps1 = 8
| reppoints1 = 0
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| occupation = miner<br/>police officer
| school = Fleur de Lys Council School
}}
'''Thomas Rees''' (8 May 1913 – 19 February 1991)<ref>[http://www.espnscrum.com/wales/rugby/player/4257.html Thomas Rees player profile] Scrum.com</ref> was a [[Wales|Welsh]] international [[rugby union]] prop who played club rugby for [[Newport RFC]]. He was a member of the winning Welsh team who beat the 1935 touring [[All Blacks]].

==Rugby career==
Rees joined Newport in 1934 after joining Newport Police Force. In 1935 he was part of the Newport team that faced the [[1935-36 New Zealand rugby union tour of the British Isles and Canada|touring New Zealand team]]. Newport lost the game 17-5 in a game noted for its physicality in the scrum and during rucks. Rees was also chosen to represent Wales against the same touring New Zealand team, but earlier in the year had already gained his first Welsh cap when he was selected to face both Scotland and Ireland in the [[1935 Home Nations Championship|Home Nations Championship]].

Rees' first international match was against Scotland under the captaincy of [[Claude Davey]]. Wales won the game 10-6, mainly thanks to an impressive display from [[Cliff Jones (rugby union)|Cliff Jones]]. His second international, at [[Ravenhill Stadium|Ravenhill]] in Belfast, saw Wales lose to Ireland, the eventual tournament winners. His next international game was against the New Zealand tourists in a close game which Wales won in the last few minutes. In 1936 Rees played in all three games of the [[1936 Home Nations Championship|Home Nations Championship]] which Wales won after beating Scotland and Ireland and drawing with England. Rees played in the first two games of the 1937 Championship, with his final game being against Scotland at [[St Helens Rugby and Cricket Ground|St Helens]].

In 1938 Rees was approached to play for the [[British and Irish Lions|British Lions]] in their [[1938 British Lions tour to South Africa|1938 tour]] of South Africa, but turned them down for financial reasons.<ref>{{cite book |last=Jenkins |first=John M. |title=Who's Who of Welsh International Rugby Players |year=1991 |publisher=Bridge Books|page=137 |location=Wrexham |isbn=1-872424-10-4|display-authors=etal}}</ref>

===International games played===
'''Wales'''<ref name="Smith471">Smith (1980), p. 471.</ref>
* {{ru|ENG}} 1936, 1937
* {{ru|IRE}} 1935, 1936, 1937
* {{ru|NZL}} 1935
* {{ru|SCO}} 1935, 1936

==Bibliography==
* {{cite book |last=Billot |first=John |title=All Blacks in Wales |year=1972 |publisher=Ron Jones Publications |location=Ferndale }}
* {{cite book |last=Godwin |first=Terry |title=The International Rugby Championship 1883-1983 |year=1984 |publisher=Willows Books |location=London |isbn=0-00-218060-X}}
* {{cite book |last=Smith |first=David |author2=Williams, Gareth |title=Fields of Praise: The Official History of The Welsh Rugby Union |year=1980 |publisher=University of Wales Press |location=Cardiff |isbn=0-7083-0766-3}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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[[Category:1913 births]]
[[Category:1991 deaths]]
[[Category:Abertillery RFC players]]
[[Category:Cross Keys RFC players]]
[[Category:Ebbw Vale RFC players]]
[[Category:Newport RFC players]]
[[Category:Pontypool RFC players]]
[[Category:Rugby union players from Caerphilly]]
[[Category:Rugby union props]]
[[Category:Wales international rugby union players]]
[[Category:Welsh rugby union players]]

Tom Rees (rugby union, born 1913) - Revision history

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