2020 October 09

Todays’ codebreaker is Joe Corsi. Joe was born into a rugby playing family of Italian immigrants in July 1894, he lived in Adam Street and Sandon Street, in Adamsdown. He became a big hit in rugby league as a try scoring wing, playing for Rochdale and then Oldham. He played with his brother, Louis, in

‘Codebreakers’ is the description long-associated with those who left the ‘amateur’ rugby union game in south Wales to pursue professional careers in the rugby league code. Many great black Welsh players were overlooked here in Wales but were given an opportunity in league almost 50 years before Wales’ union side capped its first black player. Players like