Trebanos RFC
| Full name | Trebanos Rugby Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | Banws , The Crows |
| Founded | 1897 |
| Location | Trebanos, Wales |
| Ground(s) | The Park (Capacity: Unknown) |
| Chairman | Chris Penhale |
| Coach(es) | Rhodri Jones/Justin Tipuric |
| Captain(s) | Rhys Thomas |
| League(s) | WRU Division Three South West |
| Official website | |
| www |
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Trebanos Rugby Football Club (Welsh: Clwb Rygbi Trebannws) is a Welsh rugby union team officially founded in 1897. Trebanos RFC is a member of the Welsh Rugby Union and is a feeder club for the Ospreys.
The club re-formed at the end of the First World War and was soon at full strength. Trebanos joined Swansea and District Rugby Union in 1920 and during that decade, often as not the Championship or Cup final were contested between Swansea Harbour, Clydach and Glais or Trebanos and it is not an unreliable guide to the collective strength of those clubs that the bulk of the representative league side which opposed Swansea First XV came from Clydach/Glais (one club until Vardre were formed), Swansea Harbour and Trebanos clubs.
The ‘Ancient Borough’, distinguished themselves in various competitions in the league. Between 1923 and 1928 they won the Second Division championship twice and the First Division championship once. In 1928 they lost the Swansea and District Cup Final to Swansea Harbour 4-3, but in 1929 they won the cup, playing the final against the same opposition at the Mond Field, Clydach. The gate receipts that day were £8. In 1926 Trebanos won the SKEWEN Cup an invitation competition, but the game that stands out as a classic was the Cup final of 1925 played at St Helens ground, against Swansea Harbour. There was no score, and two periods of extra time were played. In the 119th minute Swansea scored a try, which to all ‘True Blues’, was miles offside, however the referee explained later, that he had to go to work at 10.00 pm. From 1930 onwards the club took no further part in competitions until joining the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) in 1948.
These were the days of the depression and many locals left the village to find work all over the country, however, with no work available the remaining team trained every day. These were rough times but it produced some quality players notably William Bowen (Billy Boo), John Lewis (The Vaynol), Mel Lloyd, Elwyn Davies, Danny Hopkin and Aubrey Hyde, all played for Swansea.
In the Thirties came the formation of that celebrated ex–schoolboys side Trebanos Barbarians, who like their prototypes placed accent on attacking play and in the process produced great performers. Who for instance, would deny that Arthur Kift as an outside half was the complete footballer and when he elected to join Newton Abbott in the years of industrial depression, he surely forfeited the opportunity of international recognition. He was for years, almost a permanent installation in the Devon County XV.
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