Griffiths first came to note as a rugby player when he represented first-class Welsh team Newport.
[1] In 1906 he was selected as part of the Newport team to face The Original All Blacks in their first tour of Britain.
Griffiths played a part in the games against the regional sides but was never selected for the Test Matches, and thus never capped.
Griffiths later moved to France, where he played for Stade Nantais Université Club (Nantes) with Percy Bush (1910–11) and for Racing Club de France (Paris) where he played on the losing side of the final of the 1912 French Championship.
In 1912–13, he coached US Perpignanaise (Perpignan, later called "USAP") before settling in Marseilles where he died of typhoid on 4 May 1914 at the age of 29.