Clive Shell

Clive Shell
Full name Robert Clive Shell
Date of birth (1947-09-09)9 September 1947
Place of birth Pyle, Wales
Date of death 6 January 2012(2012-01-06) (aged 64)
Occupation(s) schoolmaster
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position Scrum half
Amateur clubs
Years Club / team
Pyle RFC
Aberavon RFC
Barbarian F.C.
National team(s)
Years Club / team Caps (points)
1973 Wales 1 (0)
Coaching career
Years Club / team
1984–87 Aberavon RFC

Clive Shell (9 September 1947 – 6 January 2012)[1] was a Welsh international rugby union player. Shell made his debut for the Wales national rugby union team on 10 November 1973 against Australia where he kissed the ball on his first touch while putting the ball into a scrum. A scrum-half, he played club rugby for Aberavon RFC.[2]

Shell was one of several scrum halves of that era who were in competition with Gareth Edwards for a place in the Welsh side. Although the Australia encounter was his one and only cap, Shell played for Wales against Tonga (1974). In 1977, during a Welsh Cup semi-final, Shell received a broken jaw playing against Edwards and Cardiff RFC.

Shell formed a club half back partnership with John Bevan who was also capped by Wales. He captained Aberavon RFC in the seasons of 1977–78, 1978–79 and 1979–80 before retiring.

A school teacher by profession, Shell went on to coach Aberavon during the early 1980s. In 2007, he "narrowly avoided jail" on a drink-driving offence.[3]

Shell's death was announced 6 January 2012.[4]

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