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  Gordon Brown (rugby player) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gordon Lamont Brown (1 November 1947 - 19 March 2001) was a Scottish international rugby union footballer.
Brown was from a sporting family, his elder brother Peter also played for and captained the Scottish side.
Gordon Brown then went on to replace Peter Brown at half-time due to injury, and this was the first time a brother replaced a brother in an international match.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gordon_Brown_(rugby_player)   (336 words)

  
 Gordon Brown - Scotland Rugby Player - Rugby-Heroes.net
Although impressing for Scotland it was on the Lions tours of 1971, 1974 and 1977 that Gordon truly flourished as the regular training and playing enabled him to reach peak fitness.
Gordon played two more seasons for Scotland but in late 1976 with a third Lions tour looming he was the victim of an unprovoked stamping to his head.
Gordon was a great and much loved character with an infectious sense of humour and love for life and he became a very popular speaker on the after dinner circuit.
www.sporting-heroes.net /rugby-heroes/displayhero.asp?HeroID=1992   (400 words)

  
 Gordon Brown (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
For the rugby player of the same name, see Gordon Brown (rugby player) Gordon Brown at the [[IMF Annual Meeting on September 24, 2000.]] The Right Honourable James Gordon Brown (born February 20, 1951) is a British Labour Party politician.
Brown was born in Glasgow and educated at Kirkcaldy High School.
Brown was elected to Parliament as a Labour MP in 1983, becoming opposition spokesman on Trade and Industry in 1985, then Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, before becoming Shadow Chancellor in 1992.
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 Gordon Brown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dr James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom and a Labour Party politician.
Brown has been a Raith Rovers F.C. supporter since childhood and is a member of the consortium which led a community buy-out of the club in December 2005.
Brown adhered to Labour's 1997 election pledge of not increasing the basic or higher rates of income tax, and reduced the starting rate from 20% to 10% in 1999 and the basic rate from 23% to 22% in 2000.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gordon_Brown   (2854 words)

  
 www.scrum.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
He had a wonderful talent for telling stories so it was a natural step to move on to the after-dinner circuit when he stopped playing and he was so successful that it became his full-time occupation.
On day two Gordon was nowhere to be seen for his first commentary and Steve Smith had to do two in a row - freezing in the process.
Gordon played his club rugby for Marr and West of Scotland and won the first of his 30 caps for Scotland against South Africa in 1969.
www.scrum.com /features/brown.asp   (1037 words)

  
 John Brown Gordon — Infoplease.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Gordon, John Brown, 1832–1904, U.S. public official and Confederate general, b.
Upson co., Ga. Gordon began his Civil War service as an infantry captain and so distinguished himself through four years of campaigning in the Virginia area that at Lee's surrender he was a lieutenant general commanding a corps.
Brown prepares `pick-me-up'; be prepared for more increases in national insurance.
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 Overview of Gordon Lamont Brown   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Born in Troon, the son of a professional football goal-keeper, Brown was perhaps Scotland's greatest rugby forward.
Brown was a key member of the British Lions team which was victorious in New Zealand (1971) and South Africa (1974), the only occasions Scotland has had success in these countries.
Brown was involved with charities to help the sick and disabled and was Vice-Chairman of the National Playing Fields Association in Scotland.
www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/people/famousfirst1069.html   (210 words)

  
 The Observer | Focus | The final battle
Brown's 'central issue' last week was to make sure that he could assume the reins of New Labour, a party he'd helped create and shape, in a state sufficiently united and focused to reconnect with voters and turn back Cameron's challenge at the next election.
More seriously for Brown, voices from the major trade unions were weighing in on the eve of the annual TUC conference with calls of their own for a succession timetable - and talk of a 'new leader, new policy'.
The first will be by Gordon Brown - not yet written, his aides suggested, but sure to focus on the major issues facing the party in the future.
observer.guardian.co.uk /focus/story/0,,1863877,00.html   (2257 words)

  
 Britain: Gordon Brown - Who's Next - Newsweek - MSNBC.com
In his trademark rumpled suits and drooping socks, he exudes the no-nonsense, bulldog mien of the rugby player he once was (a kick to the head in high school cost him his sight in one eye).
Asked about the president in an interview, Brown noncommittally told NEWSWEEK that "my contacts with the American administration have been mainly at a Finance-minister level." Pressed on the subject, he said only that he was now chancellor and couldn't say what his relationship with Bush might be in the future.
When Brown welcomes visitors into his office sitting room for off-the-record chats, he reels off the "great reforms" of the last eight years—in education and health, for example—but asserts that the work so far represents "only the first foothills of change" needed in Britain.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/10511140/site/newsweek   (1024 words)

  
 BAM: Obituaries, The Classes, September 1996   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
A bass player for the Outhouse Shouters band, he was a manager of the Trade Bookstore in Faunce House and a World War II veteran.
A rugby player and WBRU sportscaster at Brown, he was a medical buyer for Leo Burnett in Chicago and Los Angeles after graduation and then an account executive for CBSRadio in Boston.
Professor emeritus of French at Brown, he came to the U.S. in 1958 as a Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson scholar at NYU and joined the Brown faculty in 1964.
www.brownalumnimagazine.com /storydetail.cfm?ID=749   (2556 words)

  
 South Ayrshire Council - The Gordon Brown Memorial Garden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The garden was transformed from a traditional civic open space to a more modern, accessible garden to commemorate the life of the late international rugby player, Gordon Brown.
Gordon was known locally as 'Broon frae Troon'.
Each seat was designed to reflect some of Gordon's attributes through the association which different types of wood have with Gaelic mythology.
www.south-ayrshire.gov.uk /parks/spaces/GB_Garden.htm   (475 words)

  
 politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Has Brown found a way to turn his ratings round?
Brown’s USP is that he’s a substantial politician with a proven track record who has given this country the longest period of sustained prosperity since the war.
Gordon Brown needs to find a credible way to tidy up the spending habits of this Labour government before trying to accuse the conservatives of a “spending” agenda for public finances.
Gordon Brown is clearly fairly bright, possibly almost as bright as Cameron in an academic way.
politicalbetting.com /index.php/archives/2006/10/17/has-brown-found-a-way-to-turn-his-ratings-round   (10826 words)

  
 World Rugby Football
Rugby legend Jonah Lomu is to make a special appearance in Dubai next month along with former world record try scorer David Campese.
GORDON Brown, the Chancellor, told last night how losing an eye as a teenager taught him the NHS was "the best insurance policy in the world".
Jonah Lomu has revealed that his dream of capping a remarkable comeback to professional rugby by playing for New Zealand in next year's World Cup is over, with the confir...
archive.wn.com /2006/10/22/1400/worldrugbyfootball   (594 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Scotland national rugby union team Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The first international rugby union game was played at Raeburn Place, Edinburgh in 1871 between England and Scotland.
After a poor start in the Six Nations 2003-04 in which Scotland did not win a single match, things are steadily improving under the Australian coach Matt Williams, the first foreigner to coach the national team.
Meanwhile the Scottish Rugby Union (SRU) is under new management and Chief Executive Phil Anderton is leading the way back to financial solvency and implementing major reforms to reverse the decline of the game in Scotland.
www.ipedia.com /scotland_national_rugby_union_team.html   (272 words)

  
 Rugby Jokes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Glasgow District were on tour to the south of France and one Gordon Brown (Broon Fae Troon) was making his first tour with them.
What he didn't realise at the time was that Concorde was making its maiden flight at that same time and the crowds were cheering at it and not the rugby players.
During their stay in Wellington, one of the players had a fairly torrid affair with a local lass.
www.uidaho.edu /clubs/womens_rugby/RugbyRoot/rugby/Songs/jokes.html   (558 words)

  
 FT.com / Arts & Weekend - Lunch with the FT: The life of O’Reilly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
It turns out that while Ireland’s first billionaire is a lover of the good things in life and has the impressive frame of a former international rugby player to fill, he is pretty abstemious, especially at lunchtime.
A dazzling career in international rugby, two decades running one of the most famous names in American industry, HJ Heinz, and the creation of his own business empire spanning newspapers to fine china, hotels to oil, and telecoms to zinc.
Another former rugby player, Brown was “charming” but “extremely guarded, obviously”.
www.ft.com /cms/s/0d6b9180-f5e9-11da-b09f-0000779e2340.html   (1725 words)

  
 The Gordon Poole Entertainment Agency   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Former Scotland Rugby Player and BBC Rugby Pundit.
One of the greatest International rugby players of all time.
Former Player with Leeds, Chelsea, Everton and Nottingham Forest.
www.gordonpoole.com /speak_sport.htm   (427 words)

  
 Rugby History of Scotland # 3 quiz -- free game
United Kingdom : Rugby History of Scotland # 3
Which Scottish test player released his autobiography titled "You're A Hooker Then" in 1987?
Which Scottish rugby test player went on to coach the British Lions in 1993?
www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=185320   (299 words)

  
 Ella Mark Gordon - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Ella Mark Gordon - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Ella, Mark Gordon (1959- ), Australian rugby union player and outstanding fly-half for Australia in the 1980s.
More MSN Search results on "Ella Mark Gordon"
uk.encarta.msn.com /Ella_Mark_Gordon.html   (58 words)

  
 Women’s Profile: Vanesha McGee
Its hard to be disappointed when playing rugby, but I guess not getting television coverage for this year’s women’s DII National Collegiate Championship.
: I’ve found that in order to become a better player one must be willing to learn from many different types of coaches and players.
Being open to learning is the most important thing for a developing rugby player!
www.rugbymag.com /archive/2005/may/wmnsprof.htm   (235 words)

  
 Official Website of the British & Irish Lions Rugby Tour - player profile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Official Website of the British & Irish Lions Rugby Tour - player profile
Gordon Brown - or "Broon frae' Troon" as he was universally known - was one of the giants of Lions history, both physically and in spirit.
At 6'5" tall and weighing more than 16 stone, the Scotland second row was an obvious cornerstone of the Lions pack across three tours during the 1970s.
www.lionsrugby.com /pp_gordon_brown.html   (250 words)

  
 BBC - Gloucester Rugby - Player Profiles 2003-2004
BBC - Gloucester Rugby - Player Profiles 2003-2004
Another exciting season is in prospect at Kingsholm
Profiles of the players in the Cherry and Whites squad for the 2003-4 season.
www.bbc.co.uk /gloucestershire/sport/glosrugby/players_2003-4.shtml   (151 words)

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