365:. Despite some excellent players in the team, the Welsh play was unimaginative, often negative, and they lost 11–5. Hullin was dropped the next game and never represented Wales again. Hullin continued to represent Cardiff and was also given his first invite to represent invitational tourists, the Barbarians, that same season. Hullin left Cardiff at the end of the 1968/69 season. He made a total of 152 appearances over 6 seasons scoring 43 tries.
326:, where he was part of the team that helped the club win the unofficial Western Mail Championship for the only time. He spent a brief season at Swansea RFC before being selected by Welsh rivals Cardiff in the 1963/64 season. By the following season he was a first team regular, playing in 33 matches and scoring 12 tries. In the 1966/67 side he was made vice-captain of the senior team under
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At the age of 28, Hullin's career in banking had taken him to London, and there he was welcomed into Welsh exiles team, London Welsh. Described as a fine strategist, he spent seven years at the club. In 1972 Hullin was part of the London Welsh team to undertake their first overseas tour, to Ceylon.
372:. The African tour took in six matches from 10 to 26 May 1969. A different member of the touring side was selected to act as team captain for each of the games, and Hullin was given the honour of leading the team out for the encounter against the
290:, one of the greatest scrum-halves in world rugby. Despite his lack of international caps, he was a regular first team club player, and toured overseas, with Cardiff, London Welsh and the Barbarians. He was also a successful
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341:. Cardiff won the match 14 - 8, their fourth successive win over the Australian national side. Hullin was influential throughout, scoring the match-winner after out-smarting his opposite number
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to score a try. The 1966/67 season also saw Hullin break into the Wales squad when he was selected for the Welsh opener of the
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490:Smith, David; Williams, Gareth (1980).
731:Griffiths, Gareth (24 November 2009).
494:. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
452:Jenkins, John M.; et al. (1991).
688:"Legends Gather at Cardiff Arms Park"
513:. Macdonald & Jane's Publishers.
270:scrum-half who played club rugby for
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418:. Risca: The Starling Press.
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585:"Obituary: William Hullin"
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437:. London: Willows Books.
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208:International career
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619:"Rugby in Aberavon"
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