Edgar Morgan was a Welsh

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

 international rugby union

Rugby union

Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

 forward who played club rugby for Swansea Rugby Football Club

Swansea RFC

Swansea Rugby Football Club is a Welsh rugby union team which plays in the Welsh Premier Division. Its home ground is St Helens Rugby and Cricket Ground in Swansea. The team is sometimes known as The Whites because of the primary colour of the team strip...

 and the British Lions

British and Irish Lions

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Morgan made his Swansea debut in 1907 and played in the Swansea victories over both touring Australian

Australia national rugby union team

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 (1908) and South African (1912) teams. He joined the British Army during World War I, and was later commissioned as an infantry officer before transferring to the Royal Engineers.

International career

Morgan gained his first international cap, when he was called up to play for Arthur Harding

Arthur Harding

Arthur Flowers Harding was an English-born international rugby union player who played for and captained the Wales national team. Often called 'Boxer' Harding, he was a member of the winning Wales team who beat the 1905 touring All Blacks in a game considered one of the greatest in the history of...

's Anglo-Welsh, British Lions team that toured New Zealand and Australia in 1908

1908 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia

The 1908 British Isles tour to New Zealand and Australia was the seventh tour by a British Isles team and the fourth to New Zealand and Australia. The tour is often referred to as the Anglo-Welsh Tour as only English and Welsh players were selected due to the Irish and Scottish Rugby Unions not...

. It took a further six years until Morgan won his first Welsh cap against England at Twickenham

Twickenham Stadium

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on 17 January 1914. Morgan played all four home nation games that season and may have gained more caps but for the outbreak of the World War.

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