Lampeter Town RFC

Rugby team
teamname = Lampeter Town RFC
fullname = Lampeter Town Rugby Football Club
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location = Lampeter, Wales
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founded = 1875
ground = North Road
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league = WRU Division Three West
season = 2007-08
position = 7th [ [http://www.wru.co.uk/1152_2140.php? WRU official site] ]
url = www.lampetertownrfc.co.uk
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Lampeter Town Rugby Football Club is a rugby union team from the town of Lampeter, West Wales. The club is a member of the Welsh Rugby Union and is a feeder club for the Llanelli Scarlets. [cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/welsh/3877085.stm |title=Wales' regional rugby map |author=BBC News |publisher=BBC |date=2004-07-08 |accessdate=2008-05-31]

Lampeter is believed to be the first town in Wales to field a rugby union team when in 1850 the Reverend Professor Rowland Williams brought the game with him from Cambridge to St. David's College, Lampeter. ["Fields of Praise, The Official History of the Welsh Rugby Union 1881-1981", David Smith, Gareth Williams (1980) pp22 ISBN 0708307663] Although no evidence exists of the origination of Lampeter RFC as a separate club team from Lampeter College there is written proof of a match in the "Western Mail" between the college team and a Lampeter club in 1879. In 1881 the "Carmarthen Journal" reported a club from Lampeter was represented in the formation of the Welsh Rugby Union. ["Fields of Praise, The Official History of the Welsh Rugby Union 1881-1981", David Smith, Gareth Williams (1980) pp41 ISBN 0708307663] In 1885 Lampeter RFC fielded their first Welsh international player, E.M. Rowlands, in a game against England. ["Fields of Praise, The Official History of the Welsh Rugby Union 1881-1981", David Smith, Gareth Williams (1980) pp471 ISBN 0708307663]

Notable former player

*flagicon|WAL John Strand-Jones

External links

* [http://www.lampetertownrfc.co.uk/ Lampeter Town RFC Official club site.]
* [http://www.clwbrygbillambed.org/history.html Lampeter Town RFC Official Club History.]

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