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Welsh dual-code international rugby union and rugby league footballer

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David "Tarw" Jones (1881- 21 January 1933) (also known as Dai Jones) was a Welsh dual-code international rugby union and rugby league footballer.
He was a member of the winning Welsh team who beat the 1905 touring All Blacks in a game considered one of the greatest in the history of rugby union.
Jones is the only Welsh player to have been part of a team to have beaten the All Blacks in the union and league game and is the second dual-code international rugby player from the Northern Hemisphere.David Jones gained his nickname Tarw (Welsh for bull) from his imposing stature; standing at 6’1’’ and weighing almost 16 stone.
A collier from Aberaman who later became a policeman before becoming a collier once more, he played club rugby as a forward for Treherbert RFC and then later Aberdare, before switching back to Treherbert.
In his later life he was caught in a scandal which saw him banned from rugby union and forced his switch to rugby league.

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