Gomer Gunn
Gomer Gunn (birth registered July→September 1885 — death registered October→December 1935 (aged 50)) birth registered in Treherbert, was a Welsh rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1900s, playing club level rugby union (RU) for Treherbert RFC, and playing representative level rugby league (RL) for Other Nationalities, and at club level for Bradford F.C. (now Bradford Park Avenue A.F.C.), and Wigan, as a fullback, or centre, i.e. number 1, or 3 or 4, his death was registered in Bradford.
Playing career
International honours
Gomer Gunn won a cap for Other Nationalities (RL) while at Bradford F.C. in the 11-26 defeat by England at Park Avenue, Bradford on Monday 2 January 1905.
Career at Bradford
During Gomer Gunn's time there was Bradford F.C.'s victory in the Championship during the 1903–04 season, and the 5-0 victory over Salford in the 1906 Challenge Cup final during the 1905–06 season at Headingley Stadium, Leeds.
Career at Wigan
Gomer Gunn played centre, i.e. number 4, and scored a try in Wigan's 18-2 victory over Batley in the Championship semi-final during the 1908–09 season at Central Park, Wigan on Saturday 17 April 1909, but he did not play in the 7-3 victory over Oldham in the final during the 1908–09 season at The Willows, Salford on Saturday 1 May 1909, with Lance Todd taking his place in the team.
Gomer
Gomer (גֹּמֶר, Standard Hebrew Gómer, Tiberian Hebrew Gōmer, pronounced [ɡoˈmeʁ]) was the eldest son of Japheth (and of the Japhetic line), and father of Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah, according to the "Table of Nations" in the Hebrew Bible, (Genesis 10).
The eponymous Gomer, "standing for the whole family," as the compilers of the Jewish Encyclopedia expressed it, is also mentioned in Book of Ezekiel 38:6 as the ally of Gog, the chief of the land of Magog.
In Islamic folklore, the Persian historian Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (c. 915) recounts a Persian tradition that Gomer lived to the age of 1000, noting that this record equalled that of Nimrod, but was unsurpassed by anyone else mentioned in the Torah.
Traditional identifications
Josephus placed Gomer and the "Gomerites" in Anatolian Galatia: "For Gomer founded those whom the Greeks now call Galatians, but were then called Gomerites." Galatia in fact takes its name from the ancient Gauls (Celts) who settled there. However, the later Christian writer Hippolytus of Rome in c. 234 assigned Gomer as the ancestor of the Cappadocians, neighbours of the Galatians.Jerome (c. 390) and Isidore of Seville (c. 600) followed Josephus' identification of Gomer with the Galatians, Gauls and Celts.
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