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Emlyn Jenkins (1 December 1910 – October 1993) was a Welsh Movie theater manager, trainee teacher, landlord of a Pub, rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s and 1940s, and coached rugby league in the 1950s. He played club level rugby union (RU) for Treorchy RFC, Fields of praise : the official history of the Welsh Rugby Union, 1881–1981, David "Dai" Smith, Gareth Williams (1980) pg225 and Cardiff RFC, and representative level rugby league (RL) for Great Britain and Wales, and at club level for Salford (two spells), Wigan Warriors and St Helens (two spells, including one as a World War II guest), Leigh Centurions, as a , or , (2025). 9781903659496, London League. ISBN 9781903659496 and coached club level rugby league (RL) for Leigh Centurions and St Helens.
At the height of his success, Jenkins was considered a rare genius at rugby league football.
During Emlyn Jenkins time there was Salford's victories in the Championship in 1932–33 season, 1936–37 season and 1938–39 season, the 1938 Challenge Cup in 1937–38 season, the Lancashire Cup in the 1929–30 season, 1931–32 season, 1934–35 season, 1935–36 season and 1936–37 season, and the Lancashire County League during the 1932–33 season, 1933–34 season, 1934–35 season, 1936–37 season and 1938–39 season.
Emlyn Jenkins played in Salford's 3–15 defeat by Wigan Warriors in the Championship Final during the 1933–34 season at Wilderspool Stadium, Warrington on Saturday 28 April 1934.
Emlyn Jenkins was one of the players who successfully toured in France with Salford in 1934, during which the Salford team earned the name "Les Diables Rouges", the seventeen players were; Joe Bradbury, Bob Brown, Aubrey Casewell, Paddy Dalton, Bert Day, Cliff Evans, Jack Feetham, George Harris, Barney Hudson, Emlyn Jenkins, Alf Middleton, Sammy Miller, Harold Osbaldestin, Les Pearson, Gus Risman, Billy Watkins and Billy Williams.
About Emlyn Jenkins' time, there was Salford's 10–8 victory over Swinton Lions in the 1931 Lancashire Cup Final during the 1931–32 season at The Cliff, Broughton, Salford on Saturday 21 November 1931, the 21–12 victory over Wigan Warriors in the 1934 Lancashire Cup Final during the 1934–35 season at Station Road, Swinton on Saturday 20 October 1934, the 15–7 victory over Wigan Warriors in the 1935 Lancashire Cup Final during the 1935–36 season at Wilderspool Stadium, Warrington on Saturday 19 October 1935, the 5–2 victory over Wigan Warriors in the 1936 Lancashire Cup Final during the 1936–37 season at Wilderspool Stadium, Warrington on Saturday 17 October 1936.
Emlyn Jenkins played for St. Helens as a guest from Salford during the Wartime Emergency Leagues, and played in St. Helens' 45–38 victory over the Rugby League Players' Union in the Testimonial match for St. Helens Albert 'Sonny' Doyle [1] at Knowsley Road, St. Helens on Monday 30 April 1951.
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