Daniel Clive Thomas Rowlands OBE (14 May 1938 – 29 July 2023) was a Welsh rugby union footballer and coach.
He was given a rugby ball as a gift and accidentally kicked it through a glass door, for which he was put in a straitjacket for a week.
A teacher by profession, he played club rugby at scrum-half for Abercraf, Pontypool, Llanelli and Swansea.
In the 1963 Five Nations match against Scotland, in wet and muddy conditions, Rowlands decided to kick for touch as many times as possible, with the result that there were 111 line-outs in the match and Wales outside-half David Watkins only touched the ball five times.
[2] After retiring as a player, Rowlands was coach of the Welsh national team for 29 matches between 1968 and 1974, becoming the youngest person to hold this position.