Jack Rowell
OBE
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations,
and public service outside the civil service. It was established ...
(born 1937) is an English rugby union coach and executive. He is the former coach of
Bath
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and
England.
Rugby career
Coaching
Between 1978 and 1994 Rowell coached Bath during their ''golden era'', winning eight
John Player/Pilkington Cups and five
League Championships.
Rowell was the coach of the
England rugby team from 1995 to 1997. He took over from
Geoff Cooke, announcing that England would give up the forward-dominated, risk-free strategies that had won so many
Five Nations Championship titles in the past, instead adopting a 'running rugby' style. Rowell's England won twenty-one of their twenty-nine matches, including the
1995 World Cup quarter-final against
Australia. In percentage terms of games won Rowell is England's second most successful rugby union coach.
In 2002 he returned to Bath as director of rugby.
Administration
In 1998 Rowell became a
non-executive director
A non-executive director (abbreviated to non-exec, NED or NXD), independent director or external director is a member of the board of directors of a corporation, such as a company, cooperative or non-government organization, but not a member of th ...
on the board of
Bristol
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, when millionaire businessman
Malcolm Pearce saved the club from extinction. In September 2000 he became Managing Director.
Business career
Rowell is Chairman of Celsis plc, Chairman of UK products Ltd which is quoted on AIM and Chairman of Turleigh Ltd, a private company.
He has acted as chairman of a number of companies in the public and private sectors, mainly in food. He was previously an executive director on the board of Dalgety plc with responsibility for the consumer foods division.
Honours
Rowell was awarded the
OBE
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations,
and public service outside the civil service. It was established ...
for services to the game of Rugby Union.
In 1994, he was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Laws) by the
University of Bath
(Virgil, Georgics II)
, mottoeng = Learn the culture proper to each after its kind
, established = 1886 (Merchant Venturers Technical College) 1960 (Bristol College of Science and Technology) 1966 (Bath University of Technology) 1971 (univ ...
.
References
External links
Jack Rowell profileBath Rugby
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English rugby union coaches
Bath Rugby head coaches
Alumni of St Edmund Hall, Oxford
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
1937 births
Living people
England national rugby union team coaches
Sportspeople from Hartlepool
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