No
one is quite sure when Laugharne Rugby Football Club was formed or the game
itself played here. Our Centenary was celebrated during the 1993/94 season
and the photo above was the earliest actual proof of the club’s formation.
However, it is said locally that Laugharne had a Rugby team in 1883, and
quite probably in 1879, two years before the formation of the Welsh Rugby
Union.
In
its early years, the Club played games on a friendly basis, not joining any
League or Section, although Laugharne entered a League in Pembrokeshire in
the 1930’s and after the War regularly competed in the Pembrokeshire Cup.
In
the early Fifties, Laugharne affiliated to Llanelli & District Junior
Union and in 1956 adopted a formal cinstitution which is caefully preseved
in the Minute Book for 1958/65. In the 1971/72 Laugharne joined the West
Wales Rugby Union and began playing competitive rugby for the first time.
Besides
playing in the West Wales League, moving up a section some years and
dropping down in others, Laugharne also competed each year in the Cup and
began travelling further afield for friendly games against other clubs such
as Czchoslovakai, Poland, Portugal ans Spain.
Extracts
from Laugharne RFC Centenary Book
Author
George Tremlett
