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Ynysddu RFC

Welsh rugby union football club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ8054075 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ynysddu Rugby Football Club is a rugby union team from the village of Ynysddu in Wales. The club is a member of the Welsh Rugby Union and is a feeder club for the Newport Gwent Dragons.

Ynysddu RFC's first recorded match was against Abercarn in 1884 and was played on the church field at Mynyddislwyn. The club originally played in an all black strip until the 1920s when they switched to a red and black hooped kit.

Joshua Morrill is the clubs most successful captain of all time.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Ynysddu RFC” is welsh rugby union football club. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Ynysddu, Welsh and rugby, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1884—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1894-01-01. For this dossier, Ynysddu, Welsh and rugby is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “welsh rugby union football club” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q8054075. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1884.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ynysddu RFC” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.