Record

CodeDS/UK/1420
Dates1947-2012
Person NameShell; Robert Clive (1947-2012); Welsh rugby union player
SurnameShell
ForenamesRobert Clive
EpithetWelsh rugby union player
Activity18: Clive Shell (v Australia, 1973)

The Aberavon scrum-half was another who had to wait for a Gareth Edwards injury. When Edwards limped from the fray, Shell kissed the ball on his first touch while putting the ball into a scrum. Shell played for Wales against Tonga the following year but in a non-capped international.

Dates and PlacesBorn Pyle, Glamorgan.
Archive Catalogue
RefNoTitle
BML/1/9/6Programme, Ireland versus Wales, Lansdowne Road, 2 February 1974.
BML/1/2/21Big sheet and bundle, Wales versus Scotland, Cardiff Arms Park, 19 January 1974
BML/1/6/8Big sheet and bundle, England versus Wales, Twickenham, 16 March 1974
BML/1/6/7Big sheet and bundle, Wales versus England, Cardiff Arms Park, 20 January 1973.
BML/1/9/5Big sheet and bundle, Wales versus Ireland, Cardiff Arms Park, 10 March 1973
BML/2/12/32Big sheet and bundle, Wales XV versus New Zealand, Cardiff Arms Park, 27 November 1974.
BML/7/13Big sheet and bundle, Ireland and Scotland versus England and Wales, Lansdowne Road, 19 April 1975.
BML/2/11/1Big sheet and bundle, Wales versus Japan, Cardiff Arms Park, 6 October 1973
BML/1/2/22Big sheet and bundle, Scotland versus Wales, Murrayfield, 1 March 1975
BML/2/12/33Big sheet and bundle, Barbarian F.C. versus New Zealand, Twickenham, 30 November 1974
BML/2/12/23Big sheet and bundle, Wales versus New Zealand, Cardiff Arms Park, 2 December 1972.
BML/2/2/21Big sheet and bundle, Wales versus Australia, Cardiff Arms Park, 10 November 1973
BML/1/6/9Big sheet and bundle, Wales versus England, Cardiff Arms Park, 15 February 1975
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