Stan Owen

Stanley "Stan" G. Owen (7 March 1932 – 12 September 2019) was a Welsh rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s. He played club level rugby union (RU) for Pontypridd RFC, and representative level rugby league (RL) for Great Britain, Wales, Other Nationalities and English League XIII, and at club level for Leigh (Heritage № 617),[2] St. Helens (Heritage № 816), Rochdale Hornets and Blackpool Borough, as a prop.[3][4][5]</ref>

Stan Owen

Personal information
Full name	Stanley G. Owen
Born	7 March 1929 Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales
Died	12 September 2019 (aged 90) Wigan, Greater Manchester, England
Playing information
Rugby union
Club Years Team Pld T G FG P Pontypridd RFC
Rugby league
Position	Prop
Club Years Team Pld T G FG P 1951–64 Leigh 415 44 0 0 132 1964 St Helens 12 1 0 0 3 1964–68 Rochdale Hornets 95 1968–69 Blackpool Borough 21 Total 543 45 0 0 135 Representative Years Team Pld T G FG P 1958 English League XIII 1965 Other Nationalities 1 1955–63 Wales 2 1958 Great Britain 1 0 0 0 0
Coaching information
Club Years Team Gms W D L W% 1969 Blackpool Borough
Source: [1]

Background

Stan Owen was born in Pontypridd, Wales, and he died aged 90 in Wigan Infirmary, His brother Samuel lived in Pontypridd and passed away in 1993. Wigan, Greater Manchester, England.[5]

Playing career

Owen signed for Leigh in November 1951 and in a 13-year stay at the club made 415 appearances for the club, second only in number of appearances for Leigh to Albert Worrall. He played for Leigh in the 4–15 defeat by St. Helens in the 1963–64 Lancashire Cup Final at Knowsley Road on Saturday 26 October 1963. In 1964 he transferred to St. Helens but after playing only 12 games for St. Helens he transferred to Rochdale Hornets for whom he made 95 appearances between 1964 and 1968 including Rochdale's 5–16 defeat by Warrington in the 1965–66 Lancashire Cup Final at Knowsley Road, on Friday 29 October 1965. His final move was to join Blackpool Borough in 1968 where he made 21 appearances before retiring from playing and became Borough's coach.[6]

International honours

Stan Owen won a cap for Great Britain (RL) while at Leigh in 1958 against France,[1] and represented Other Nationalities (RL) while at Rochdale Hornets, he played left-prop, in the 2-19 defeat by St. Helens at Knowsley Road, St. Helens on Wednesday 27 January 1965, to mark the switching-on of new floodlights.[7]

Stan Owen also represented English League XIII (RL) playing right-prop in the 19–8 victory over France at Headingley, Leeds on Wednesday 16 April 1958, and Wales (RL) while at Leigh in a non-Test match on Thursday 19 May 1955 against France 'B' at Stade Marcel Saupin, Nantes, and in a non-Test match on Sunday 17 February 1963 against France at Stadium Municipal, Toulouse.

References

1. "Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org". rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
2. "Statistics at leighrl.co.uk". leighrl.co.uk. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
3. Williams, Graham; Lush, Peter; Farrar, David (2009). The British Rugby League Records Book. London League. pp. 108–114. ISBN 978-1-903659-49-6.
4. "In Memory Of Stan Owen". leighrl.co.uk. 31 December 2018. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
5. "RIP Stan Owen". Wales Rugby League. 13 September 2019. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
6. "Stan Owen - Leigh's mighty Welshman". Rugby League Journal. No. 69. 2019. p. 33.
7. Cook, H.B. (1965). Programme - St. Helens versus Other Nationalities. St. Helens Rugby F.C. Ltd.

External links

• Profile at saints.org.uk