Sport
- Cricket - Wilf Wooller becomes an England Test selector.
- Rugby Union
- 22 January - Ken Jones becomes Wales's most capped player (36) in a game against England.
- 12 March - Wales beat Ireland 21–3 at the National Stadium, Cardiff.
- 26 March - Wales win the Five Nations Championship for the fourth time this decade.
- BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year - John Disley
Read more about this topic: 1955 In Wales
Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“For generations, a wide range of shooting in Northern Ireland has provided all sections of the population with a pastime which ... has occupied a great deal of leisure time. Unlike many other countries, the outstanding characteristic of the sport has been that it was not confined to any one class.”
—Northern Irish Tourist Board. quoted in New Statesman (London, Aug. 29, 1969)
“The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one’s appetite is not too keen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)