Leicester Tigers are a professional rugby union club based in Leicester,England. They play in Premiership Rugby,England's top division of rugby.
Martin Osborne Johnson CBE is an English retired rugby union player who represented and captained England and Leicester in a career spanning 16 seasons. He captained England to victory in the 2003 Rugby World Cup,and is regarded as one of the greatest locks ever to have played,and one of England's greatest ever players.
Martin Edward Corry MBE is a retired English rugby union player who represented and captained England and Leicester Tigers in a career spanning 14 seasons. Corry played 64 times for England between 1997 and 2007,played 7 tests for the British &Irish Lions on tours in 2001 &2005,and played 290 times for Leicester between 1997 and 2009. Earlier in his career he played top division rugby for Newcastle Gosforth and Bristol. A versatile player his principal positions were number eight and blindside flanker,he also played lock more as his career progressed.
Andrew Gavin Hastings, is a Scottish former rugby union player. A fullback,he is widely regarded to be one of the best ever Scottish rugby players and was one of the outstanding players of his generation,winning 61 caps for Scotland,20 of which as captain. He played for Watsonians,London Scottish,Cambridge University,Scotland and the British Lions. He twice toured with the Lions,to Australia in 1989 and as captain on the 1993 tour to New Zealand.
Andrew Robertson Irvine is a former president of the Scottish Rugby Union (SRU),and a former Scottish international rugby player. He earned fifty one Scotland caps,captaining the team on fifteen occasions,and scored 250 points for Scotland. He went on three British Lions tours.
Arthur Owen Jones was an English cricketer,noted as an all-rounder,and former Captain of England. He was also a rugby union player for Leicester at full back or three quarter.
Andrew Douglas Nicol,is a former Scotland international rugby union player. A scrum-half,Nicol won 23 caps for Scotland and had brief spells as a replacement on two British &Irish Lions tours.
Edinburgh University Rugby Football Club is a leading rugby union side based in Edinburgh,Scotland which currently plays its fixtures in the Edinburgh Regional Shield competition and the British Universities Premiership. It is one of the eight founder members of the Scottish Rugby Union. In the years prior to the SRU's introduction of club leagues in 1973 and the advent of professionalism in the 1990s,EURFC was a major club power and it won the 'unofficial' Scottish Club championship several times. It remains a club with an all-student committee,and is only open to students of the University of Edinburgh. The club runs a men's team and a women's team;both playing in the university leagues.
Leslie Balfour-Melville,born Leslie Balfour,was a Scottish amateur sportsman,serving as captain,opening batsman,and wicket-keeper for the Scotland national cricket team.
Robert Wilson Shaw CBE was a Scottish rugby union footballer who played for Scotland in 19 tests between 1934 and 1939.
The 1901 Home Nations Championship was the nineteenth series of the rugby union Home Nations Championship. Six matches were played between 5 January and 16 March. It was contested by England,Ireland,Scotland and Wales.
The 1904 Home Nations Championship was the twenty-second series of the rugby union Home Nations Championship. Six matches were played between 9 January and 19 March. It was contested by England,Ireland,Scotland and Wales.
Dean Richards is a rugby union coach and former player for Leicester Tigers,England and British &Irish Lions. He was most recently the Director of Rugby at Newcastle Falcons,a position he held for ten years between 2012 and 2022.
David Revell "Darkie" Bedell-Sivright was a Scottish international rugby union forward who captained both Scotland and the British Isles. Born in Edinburgh,and educated at Fettes College where he learned to play rugby,he studied at Cambridge University and earned four Blues playing for them in the Varsity Match. He was first selected for Scotland in 1900 in a match against Wales. After playing in all of Scotland's Home Nations Championship matches in 1901,1902 and 1903,Bedell-Sivright toured with the British Isles side –now known as the British &Irish Lions –that toured South Africa in 1903. After playing the first 12 matches of the tour,he was injured and so did not play in any of the Test matches against South Africa.
Royal High School Former Pupils is a rugby union club based in Edinburgh,Scotland. Royal HSFP was a founder member of the Scottish Rugby Union,the second oldest national governing body in the world.
Angus Cameron was a Scottish international rugby union player who played for Glasgow HSFP and Glasgow District.
Josh Strauss is a South African-born Scotland international rugby union player who currently plays for Israeli side Tel Aviv Heat. He previously played for Glasgow Warriors and the Bulls. His regular playing position is flanker or number 8.
August Frederick 'Oubaas Mark' Markötter (1878–1957) was a South African rugby union player and national selector who coached Stellenbosch Rugby Football Club from 1903 to 1957. As coach he not only turned Maties into the world's largest rugby club but forged 50 of his players into Springboks and got nearly 150 of his players selected for the Western Province team. Eleven of the 1906 Springbok touring squad to Britain "had developed under him at Stellenbosch".
History of Leicester Tigers details the history of the rugby union club based in Leicester,England. Nicknamed the Tigers from 1885,Leicester have been a prominent club from the earliest days of organised English rugby dominating midlands rugby before the First World War;providing British Lions captains in 1930,1936,1997 and 2001;and winning 21 major titles since 1979 including a record 11 Premiership Rugby titles.
