Jack Siggins
Encyclopedia
John Allan Edward "Jack" Siggins (28 June 1909 – 24 December 1995) was an Irish
rugby union
Number 8. Siggins played club rugby for Belfast Collegians
and played international rugby for Ireland
captaining the national side on nine occasions between 1934 and 1936. In 1955 he was appointed manager of the British Isles team
on their tour of South Africa
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Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
rugby union
Rugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
Number 8. Siggins played club rugby for Belfast Collegians
Collegians (Belfast)
Collegians is the name of a club for former pupils of Methodist College Belfast. In the 108-year history of the club, it had rugby union, cricket, hockey, basketball and athletics sections...
and played international rugby for Ireland
Ireland national rugby union team
The Ireland national rugby union team represents the island of Ireland in rugby union. The team competes annually in the Six Nations Championship and every four years in the Rugby World Cup, where they reached the quarter-final stage in all but two competitions The Ireland national rugby union...
captaining the national side on nine occasions between 1934 and 1936. In 1955 he was appointed manager of the British Isles team
British and Irish Lions
The British and Irish Lions is a rugby union team made up of players from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales...
on their tour of South Africa
1955 British Lions tour to South Africa
In 1955 the British Lions rugby union team toured Southern and Eastern Africa. The Lions drew the test series against , each team winning two of the four matches. They won the first test by a single point and the third by three points and lost the second and fourth matches by wider margins...
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