CARDIFF’S oldest player (definitely) and Wales’ most venerable player (arguably) passed away this week when Graham Hale died aged 97.
Remarkably Hale scored the winning try at the Middlesex Sevens nearly 80 years ago in 1939, when Wilf Wooller took a hastily assembled Cardiff squad up to Twickenham and beat a star-studded London Scottish – Sevens specialists – in the final.
As Hale recently recalled: “We won our semi-final and sat in the grandstand to watch London Scottish win the second semi. Wilf sat next to me and said:
‘We must stop this blighter Bruc...