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In the game of rugby union, there are 15 players on each team, comprising eight forwards and seven backs. In addition, there may be up to eight replacement players "on the bench", numbered 16–23. Players are not restricted to a single position, although they generally specialise in just one or two that suit their skills and body types. Players that play multiple positions are called "utility players".
John William Smit, OIS, is a South African former professional rugby union player and former chief executive officer of the Sharks. He was the 50th captain of the Springbok rugby union team and led the team to win the 2007 Rugby World Cup. He played most of his senior career as a hooker, but also won 13 caps as a prop, where he had also played for South Africa's under-21 team. He retired from international rugby following the 2011 Rugby World Cup as the most-capped South African player ever, with 111 appearances.
Between October 1966 and March 1967 the Australia national rugby union team – the Wallabies – conducted a world tour on which they played five Tests and thirty-one minor tour matches. Under the captaincy of John Thornett they toured UK, Ireland, France and Canada winning nineteen matches, losing fourteen and drawing three. At one stage they failed to win in four successive matches although in the Test match against England they gave the home side its heaviest defeat in 16 years. The tour marked the climax of the successful "Thornett Era" of Australian Rugby, buoyed by the leadership skills of skipper John Thornett and the outstanding abilities of greats of the game like Ken Catchpole, Peter Johnson and Rob Heming. Dick Marks and Peter Crittle also toured and would later become among the most influential administrators of Australian rugby.
Alexander J. Kelly was a rugby union player who represented Australia.
John William Maund was a rugby union player who represented Australia.
Edmund Dore (1879–1964) was a rugby union player who represented Australia.
John Manning was a rugby union player who represented Australia.
Frederick Charles Nicholson was a rugby union player who represented Australia.
David M. Williams was a rugby union player who represented Australia.
Robert D. Marrott was a rugby union player who represented Australia.
John Garven Blackwood was a rugby union player who represented Australia.
John Wylie P. Breckenridge was a rugby union player who represented Australia.
Edmund George "Eddie" Broad was a rugby union player who represented Australia.
Thomas Leo Sweeney was a rugby union player who represented Australia.
Otto George "Tony" Fox was a rugby union player who represented Australia.
Stephen Perry Fry was a South African rugby union player, most often playing as a flanker. Fry played rugby for his home town of Somerset West and provincial rugby for Western Province. He won 13 caps for the South African national team, and captained the country in four matches against the British Lions.
Matthew Lucas is an Australian rugby union footballer. His regular playing position is scrum-half. He has been named in the Waratahs Extended Playing Squad for the 2013 Super Rugby season.
Lucas Noguera Paz is an Argentine rugby union footballer who recently played as a loosehead prop for Bath in Premiership Rugby and for Argentina.
Pedro Guia Lucas is a Portuguese rugby union player. He plays scrum half for Lusitanos XV and Portugal Rugby at international level.
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