Famous Present and Past Players
- Gordon D'Arcy
Shay Kelly replaced Jackie Kyle on the Ireland team in the 1950s and went on to earn numerous caps for his country.Shay deserves to be counted in Wexford rugby and what about Freddie Doyle a Leinster junior player.
Ray Canning also played for Leinster while a member of Wexford Wanderers. He began his rugby career at the age of sixteen as one of Nicky Furlongs second team and went on to become one of Wexford Wanderers best players. He also was a Leinster and Wexford County champion in running and high jump along with other track and field titles. He moved to Dublin in 1961 and joined Bective Rangers, a prestigious Dublin club with fixtures against top notch clubs like Cardiff, Northhampton, and Ebbw Vale. He won a Leinster senior cup medal in 1962 being charged with marking Ireland star center Kevin Flynn. Bective defeated the much favoured Wanderers F.C. 18 to 6 and Flynn was scoreless. In 1966 Canning joined New York Rugby Club. He played a major part in the first USA tour of South America in 1968 with New York Rugby club scoring a spectacular try in the curtain raiser before the Argentina - Wales international. He joined in many tours of Canada, Scandinavia, and the Caribbean Islands before moving to San Francisco where he ended his rugby career and now lives.
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