Internationals at Cardiff and Coventry[5] and played Association Football as a centre forward with a local junior team for 2 years after leaving school.
In 1935 Dai Jenkins signed for Acton and Willesden[7] and played his first Rugby League game against Featherstone at Post Office Road.
In May 1936 Dai left Action & Willesden and joined Streatham & Mitcham Rugby League Club[8] playing for them until Dec 1936.
Dai played for Leeds in the 1947 Yorkshire Cup Final against Wakefield Trinity at Fartown.
[13] In the 1937-1938 season Dai Jenkins was awarded a Welsh International cap when he played for Wales against England at Newcastle.
[14] He represented Wales against England at Llanelli in the European Rugby League championship on 5 November 1938[15] and again in a friendly match at Odsal on 23 December 1939.
[16] Also in 1938 Dai Jenkins played for Wales against France and is reputed to have swapped his shirt with one of the French players (no 7).
In 1938, Dai toured France, as a guest player, with the Hunslet Rugby League team.
[23] The team and officials returned to the UK on RMS Rangitiki[24] "Jenkins would tackle anything from a charging elephant to a whippet tank."
(a small, fast tank of WW1)[25] Dai Jenkins said "his greatest football thrill was at Huddersfield in the 1947 Cup semi-final v Wakefield, when Leeds won through to Wembley"[5] Dai was the son of Richard Jenkins and wife Rachel (nee Howells) who married 1909 (Q3) in Pontypridd Registration district.