Steve Llewellyn - Wing
Wales RLHeritage No | 207 |
Date Of Birth | 24/01/1924 |
Place Of Birth | Abertillery |
Education | Abertillery County School |
Clubs | St Helens, Abertillery |
Regions | Monmouthshire |
Honours | Wales RL |
As a schoolboy, Stewart Marshall "Steve" Llewellyn was unable to command a place in the school Rugby Union team because he was considered to be too small so he turned to the 11-person game of football initially.. He attended the same school as George Parsons in Abertillery before going to Caerleon training college where Viv Harrison and Don Gullick also studied. When he turned 19, he joined the Welsh Guards and served in Italy during the Second World War. After this, he played a few games of rugby union in Scotland for the Guards team which won the B.O.A.R. Championship. Demobbed in 1946, he went to teach in his home town and began playing rugby again by accident. With a friend he went to watch an old boys match and the team were short handed so he was asked to play, and he scored two tries. At the end of the 1945-46 season he joined Abertillery and was in the same team as George Parsons and Ray Price. He played three games for Monmouthshire and qas invited to a Wales trial but was unable to go because of illness. He turned professional with St Helens in 1948 for £600, two days after Parsons had committed himself to the club. In 1953, he helped Saints win the Championship Final, as they beat Halifax 24-14. Later that year, he was in their Lancashire Cup Final winning side as they beat Wigan 16-8. Then in 1956, he was a try-scorer at Wembley as St Helens won the Challenge Cup for the first time, beating Halifax 13-2. Earlier that season. he'd equalled the St Helens' club record for most tries in a match twice by scoring six against Castleford on 3 March 1956, and later again against Liverpool City on 20 August 1956. He retired in 1958 with 287 appearances and 239 tries for the club. In retirement, he stayed in St Helens, working as an English language and PE teacher, and later became deputy head at two local secondary schools. He died in St Helens on 10 December 2002.
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