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Vernon Pugh Award For Distinguished Service
The Vernon Pugh Award for Distinguished Service, previously called the IRB Distinguished Service Award, is awarded by World Rugby at the World Rugby Awards. It has been awarded annually since 2001. It honours an individual, Union or group, male or female, who has given outstanding service to their country and contributed to the International Game in as many as possible of the following areas: Playing, Coaching, Management, Training, Administration, Media & Broadcast. Recipients References External linksWorld Rugby Awards {{World Rugby Awards World Rugby Awards Awards established in 2001 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Rugby
World Rugby is the governing body for the sport of rugby union. World Rugby organises the Rugby World Cup every four years, the sport's most recognised and most profitable competition. It also organises a number of other international competitions, such as the World Rugby Sevens Series, the Rugby World Cup Sevens, the World Rugby Under 20 Championship, World Under 20 Championship, and the Pacific Nations Cup. World Rugby's headquarters are in Dublin, Ireland. Its membership now comprises 133 national unions. Each member country must also be a member of one of the six regional unions into which the world is divided: Africa, North America, Asia, Europe, South America, and Oceania. World Rugby was founded as the International Rugby Football Board (IRFB) in 1886 by , and , with joining in 1890. , and became full members in 1949. became a member in 1978 and a further 80 members joined from 1987 to 1999. The body was renamed the International Rugby Board (IRB) in 1998, and took ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jock Hobbs
Michael James Bowie Hobbs (15 February 1960 – 13 March 2012), known as Jock Hobbs, was a New Zealand rugby union player and administrator. A flanker, he played for Canterbury and won 21 caps for the New Zealand national team, the All Blacks, between 1983 and 1986, with four tests as captain. In later years he was prominent in rugby administration. Between 2002 and 2010 he was chairman of the New Zealand Rugby Union before standing down due to illness. Youth and playing career Hobbs was born in Christchurch. He played in the first XV at Christ's College in Christchurch, and was a regular first choice for Canterbury from the 1981 season onwards, playing in the failed Ranfurly Shield challenge against Waikato. His test debut came in 1983 against the British and Irish Lions, where he was successor to Graham Mourie. Others that were possible replacements were Bruce Middleton and Auckland captain Alwyn Harvey, but Hobbs played so well against the Lions that he was an au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Lapasset
Bernard Lapasset (20 October 1947 – 3 May 2023) was a French rugby administrator who was Chairman of the World Rugby from 2008 to 2016. He previously served as President of the French Federation of Rugby Union from 1991 to May 2008, when Pierre Camou, then vice-president took over. He was also vice-chairman of the National Olympic Committee (CNOSF). Lapasset played a critical role in France winning the hosting rights to the 2007 Rugby World Cup and its organisation and the introduction of rugby sevens into the Olympics for Rio 2016. Biography Lapasset was born in Tarbes, Hautes-Pyrénées on 20 October 1947. He was married and had three children. Law degree and office, he was Director of Customs (General Directorate of Customs and Excise) before embarking on a career in rugby administration. As a player of rugby, he was junior champion of France Agen Reichel with the U.S. in 1967 and Champion of France with the U.S. Customs Corporate Paris. As leader, he was chairman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoshirō Mori
is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party from 2000 to 2001. He was unpopular in opinion polls during his time in office, and is known for making controversial statements, both during and after his premiership. Mori was born in present-day Nomi, Ishikawa, Japan, and worked as a journalist before entering politics. In 1969, Mori was elected in the lower house for the Ishikawa 2nd district. He served in government as education minister in 1983 and 1984, international trade and industry minister in 1992 and 1993, and construction minister in 1995 and 1996, and later became secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). After Keizō Obuchi suffered a stroke and cerebral hemorrhage on 2 April 2000 and was unable to continue in office, Mori became president of the LDP and prime minister days before Obuchi's death. The media coverage of Mori's term as prime minister was dominated by his gaffes and undip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syd Millar
Sydney Millar (23 May 1934 – 10 December 2023) was a Northern Irish rugby union prop who played for Ballymena RFC and Ulster and international rugby for Ireland and the British Lions. After retiring from playing rugby he became a rugby coach and a rugby administrator. He became chairman of the Irish Rugby Union in 1995 and from 2003 until 2007 was chairman of the International Rugby Board. Former Lions captain Willie John McBride stated that Millar had given "his whole life to the game". Early life Millar was born in Ballymena in Northern Ireland, the eldest of six children. He spent a period away as a sea cadet. Rugby Millar played at outside-half at school. A highly technical prop, he focused on the set-piece and could play on either side of the scrum at the highest level. Playing career Millar played for his home town club, Ballymena RFC. Millar first played for Ireland in 1958 and went on to win 37 caps as a prop. This included a four-year gap when he was out of fav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigel Starmer-Smith
Nigel Starmer-Smith (born 25 December 1944) is a British retired international rugby union player, British rugby journalist and commentator. He was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford and University College, Oxford. After university, Starmer-Smith briefly trained at a shipping management firm before choosing to focus on a career in rugby. Playing career Starmer-Smith played scrum-half for Oxford University (as a student at University College, Oxford) before progressing to senior club, Harlequins. He retired in 1975–76. During the 1966–67 season, while still at Oxford he was selected to play for British rugby's foremost invitational team the Barbarians. In 1969 he was selected to play for England against a touring South Africa side. Non-playing career and journalism In the late 1960s he taught geography at Epsom College. He edited '' Rugby World'' magazine and for 15 years introduced Rugby Special for the BBC. He also commentated on Olympic hockey for the BBC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Williams (rugby Union Coach)
Ray Williams, OBE (25 August 1927 – 3 December 2014) was the world's first professional full-time rugby union coach. He was the national coaching director of the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) in the late 1960s and through the 1970s, devising the strategies that led Wales to dominate rugby in Europe at that time. He was also a major influence on former Australian national coach Bob Templeton. A talented player in his younger years, Williams played for London Welsh, Northampton, Moseley, and East Midlands. He was selected to trial for the Welsh national team as a flyhalf. Williams trained as a PE teacher at Loughborough College and coached the West Midland's region in England. He also staged courses to help teachers become rugby coaches and was the driving force behind the creation of England rugby's coaching manual in the early 1950s. Williams was appointed to the WRU in 1967, and began a transformation of Welsh rugby through conferences and courses which gave Wales more than 300 qua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian McIntosh
Ian McIntosh (24 September 1938 – 5 April 2023) was a Zimbabwean–South African rugby union coach. He served as head coach for the Springboks during 1993 and 1994. McIntosh grew up near Bulawayo in Matabeleland, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). McIntosh never played for his country ( Rhodesian national rugby union team) as a player, but became acquainted with coaching in the 1970s under the tutelage of the then Welsh Rugby Union coaching director Ray Williams. When his coaching career ended, McIntosh was a Springbok selector for 13 years and he also served as a mentor for numerous South African national coaches in the senior and junior ranks. He also stayed in touch with the game through his involvement with the South African Rugby Legends Association (SARLA). In 2013 Ian McIntosh became the first South African and the first Durban North resident to win the IRB’s Vernon Pugh Award for Distinguished Service, recognising his achievement in changing the face of rugby in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viorel Morariu
Viorel Morariu (18 October 1931 – 23 May 2017) was a Romanian rugby union flanker. He was one of the best Romanian rugby players of his generation. His son, Octavian, was also a rugby player, and both served as presidents of the Romanian Rugby Federation. International career Morariu was a consistent member of the Romanian national team throughout the 1950s and 1960s and was a former captain of the team. Awards In 2012, he received the Vernon Pugh Award for Distinguished Service The Vernon Pugh Award for Distinguished Service, previously called the IRB Distinguished Service Award, is awarded by World Rugby at the World Rugby Awards. It has been awarded annually since 2001. It honours an individual, Union or group, male o ... for his contributions to rugby. Death Morariu died on 23 May 2017 at the age of 85. Gallery Viorel Morariu 1963.jpg, Grivița Roșie 1963.jpg, See also * List of Romania national rugby union players References External links * Obit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noel Murphy (rugby Union, Born 1937)
Noel Arthur Augustine Murphy (born 22 February 1937) is a former Irish rugby union player who represented Munster Rugby, Munster, Ireland national rugby union team, Ireland, the British and Irish Lions and the Barbarian F.C., Barbarians as a Flanker (rugby union), flanker. He also played club rugby for both Cork Constitution and Garryowen Football Club, Garryowen. Since retiring as a player, Murphy has remained involved in rugby union, both as a coach and administrator. Family Murphy is a member of one Ireland's most renowned rugby families. Both his father, Noel Murphy (rugby union, born 1904), Noel Sr, and his son Kenny Murphy have also represented Ireland national rugby union team, Ireland at rugby. They are the first, and to date, only family to have a father, son and grandson capped at senior level. Rugby international Ireland Between 1957-1958 Australia rugby union tour of Britain, Ireland and France, 1958 and 1969 Five Nations Championship, 1969, Murphy won 41 caps for I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Nijaradze
George may refer to: Names * George (given name) * George (surname) People * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Papagheorghe, also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorgio Moroder * George, son of Andrew I of Hungary Places South Africa * George, South Africa, a city ** George Airport United States * George, Iowa, a city * George, Missouri, a ghost town * George, Washington, a city * George County, Mississippi * George Air Force Base, a former U.S. Air Force base located in California Computing * George (algebraic compiler) also known as 'Laning and Zierler system', an algebraic compiler by Laning and Zierler in 1952 * GEORGE (computer), early computer built by Argonne National Laboratory in 1957 * GEORGE (operating system), a range of operating systems (George 1–4) for the ICT 1900 range of computers in the 1960s * GEORGE (programming language), an autocode system invented by Charles Leonard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Shehadie
Sir Nicholas Michael Shehadie, (16 November 1926 – 11 February 2018) was a Lord Mayor of Sydney (1973–1975) and national representative rugby union captain, who made thirty career test appearances for Australia between 1947 and 1958. He was President of the Australia Rugby Union from 1980 to 1987; in that role he pushed for and succeeded in persuading the International Rugby Board to launch the Rugby World Cup. He is an inductee into both the Australian Rugby Union Hall of Fame and the IRB Hall of Fame. Early life Nicholas Michael Shehadie (Arabic: السير نيكولاس مايكل شحادة) was born to a Lebanese Greek Orthodox family in the beachside Sydney suburb of Coogee. He was the third of five children born to Hannah (née Khouri) and Michael Shehaidie, who arrived in Sydney from Lebanon in 1923, two years before Nicholas was born. Nicholas grew up in Redfern, Sydney and attended the Cleveland St Public and later Crown St Commercial schools. Rugby career Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
