Graham Walters
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Full name | Graham Walters | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Graham Walters is a rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer of the 1970s and 1980s. He played club level rugby union (RU) for Swansea RFC, as a Centre, i.e. number 12 or 13, and representative level rugby league (RL) for Wales, and at club level for Hull F.C., Wakefield Trinity (Heritage 999), and Cardiff City (Bridgend) Blue Dragons, as a centre, i.e. number 3 or 4.[1][2]
Playing career
International honours
Graham Walters won caps for Wales (RL) while at Hull, and Bridgend Blue Dragons 1980…1984 2(3?)-caps + 1-cap (interchange/substitute).[1]
Challenge Cup Final appearances
Graham Walters played right-centre, i.e. number 3, in Hull F.C.'s 5-10 defeat by Hull Kingston Rovers in the 1980 Challenge Cup Final during the 1979–80 season at Wembley Stadium, London on Saturday 3 May 1980, in front of a crowd of 95,000.
Note
Before the start of the 1984/85 season, Cardiff City Blue Dragons relocated from Ninian Park in Cardiff, to Coychurch Road Ground in Bridgend, and were renamed Bridgend Blue Dragons.