Our History

From 1930

In the early 1930's the club chairman was Alderman William Evan, with Mr. T.S. Edwards as secretary and Mr. Sid Williams as treasurer. Messrs. T.B. Bevan, Elvet Lewis, W. Lang, W. Inkin and W. John became the backbone of the committee until the outbreak of the 2nd World War.

Gorseinon have always practiced the gospel of the open game with their lively attitude to rugby, and through the years many fine players have been connected with the club, especially in the 1930's. Malcolm Jones who played at centre with Swansea and Llanelli, Cyril Berry, Jim Lang, Tom Day, Idwal Davies and Ernie Rees who captained the team in the 1935-36 season were prominent.

The first match to be played by Gorseinon after the Second World War took place on 3rd September 1945, barely a month aftr the end of the War which ended on 8th August 1945.

Largelly responsible for arranging the fixture were Will Lang, Benny Bevan and Reg Gale. the opponents were Gowerton. Gorseinon lost 14-0. At his time the Gorseinon team were known as Grovesend Welfare (Gorseinon) as we were largely sponsored by the local tin plate works.

Those taking part for Gorseinon in that first match were Roy Evans (Beer Bach) at 15 years 10 ½; months, the youngest player ever to play for gorseinon. Les Jones (Zebs) at 15 years 11 months was the second youngest. Elgan Davies (Gato) 16 ½; years and Lyn Evans also 16½; years.

It was possible for those young players to play for Gorsinon as there was no Second XV and the Youth Team had not started.