Frank Shugars

Frank Shugars

Personal information
Full name	Francis Shugars
Nickname	Frank
Born	c. 1875-1881 Pontypridd, Wales
Died	April→June 1953 (aged 77) Warrington
Playing information
Height	5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
Weight	14 st 6 lb (92 kg)
Rugby union
Club Years Team Pld T G FG P ≤1904–04 Penygraig
Rugby league
Position	Second-row
Club Years Team Pld T G FG P 1904–12 Warrington 212 18 0 0 54 Representative Years Team Pld T G FG P ≥1904–≤12 Lancashire 1909–12 Wales 5 1910 Great Britain 1 0 0 0 0
Source: rugbyleagueproject.org englandrl.co.uk

Francis "Frank" Shugars (c. 1875-1881 — April→June 1953 (aged 77)) born in Pontypridd, was a Welsh rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1900s and 1910s playing club level rugby union (RU) for Penygraig RFC, and playing representative level rugby league (RL) for Great Britain, Wales, and Lancashire, and at club level for Warrington, as a Second-row, i.e. number 11 or 12, during the era of contested scrums, his death was registered in Warrington.

Frank Shugars won five caps for Wales (RL) while at Warrington between 1909 and 1912, all of them against England.

While at Warrington Shugars became their first player to become a Great Britain tourist when was selected to go on the 1910 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand and won caps for Great Britain against Australasia, and New Zealand.

Frank Shugars is a Warrington Wolves Hall of Fame inductee.