Time Machine: When rugby league looked to athletics for new stars

Our time machine travels back to the 1960s when rugby league discovered some future stars of the game on the running track rather than the rugby pitch. PACE has always been a passport to points in rugby league, making any kind of speed merchant of interest to clubs. Back in April 1964, the Welsh sprint sensation Berwyn Jones (above) hit the hea

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