In memoriam · 1 December 1910 – 19 October 1993
Emlyn Jenkins: a collier's son from the Rhondda who became the finest stand-off British rugby league produced in the 1930s, a Royal Artillery gunner who went to war on merchant ships, and for forty years afterward, a teacher who never once stopped coaching.
League Express, 25 October 1993, on his passing at Andover, Hampshire, aged 82
Twelve chapters, from Miskin Street to the last rugby field. Pick a place to start.
The family, the valley, and a pig's-bladder ball on the coal tips.
→ 02Treorchy, Bridgend, Cardiff, and the offer a collier’s son could not refuse.
→ 03Ten years a Salford star, and the nickname Manchester United borrowed.
→ 04Australia and New Zealand, 1936. The find of the tour.
→ 05Wigan, a retirement at twenty-seven, and fifteen years of not quite stopping.
→ 06The Royal Artillery, DEMS, and the ship sunk beneath him.
→ 07Leigh, Warrington, Leigh again, and St Helens.
→ 08Home again, the Castle Hotel, and the Boys' Club.
→ 09Hampshire, and giving almost everything away.
→ 10A pink hat, a café in Manchester, and four daughters.
→ 11The friendship that lasted a lifetime.
→ 12Andover, 1993, and what remains.
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