Canadian Rugby Past Presidents
The Canadian Rugby Football Union was established in 1884 with the specific purpose of organizing play-off games between various union champions. Representatives from the Montreal (Rugby) Football club (now known as the Westmount Rugby Club), the Toronto Rugby Football Club and from the Hamilton Rugby Football Club had meetings in Toronto and Montreal. It was decided that the union would continue to use the English rugby rules, and at the end of the season the winning club of the Quebec Championship would play the Ontario Champion for the Club Championship of the Dominion.
During the years 1929 through to 1939, the Rugby Union of Canada became administratively responsible for the playing of the game of Rugby Football in Canada. The Union was a very much less formal presence than in modern days, but meetings were held and a variety of individuals were elected to look after different aspects of the game. Included in these elections was the position of president which was held by six different men over this period of time.
The Rugby Union of Canada, largely because of the vision, effort and hard work of one man, was re-formed in 1965 as the Canadian Rugby Union. It was incorporated in 1974 and it became affiliated to the International Rugby Board (IRB) in 1987.
The research for these articles was done by Doug Sturrock, Ian Kennedy and Don Whidden, and the sketches were prepared by Don Whidden. Thanks as well to Bob Elder for his direction the project - and Monty Heald.
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Sometime after 1939, Rugby Canada as a union was dissolved until 1965. |
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