Jack Rowell

Jack Rowell OBE (born 1937) is the Director of Rugby union at Bath.

Between 1978 and 1994 Rowell coached Bath during their "golden era", winning eight John Player/Pilkington Cups and five League Championships.

Between 1995 and 1997, Rowell was the coach of the England Rugby Team. He took over from Geoff Cooke, announcing that England would give up the forward-dominated, risk-free strategies that had won so many Six Nations titles in the past, instead adopting a 'running rugby' style. Rowell's England won twenty-one of their twenty-nine matches, including the 1995 World Cup quarter-final against Australia. In percentage terms of games won Rowell is England's most successful rugby union coach.

In 1998 he became a non-executive director on the board of Bristol, when millionaire businessman Malcolm Pearce saved the club from extinction. In September 2000 he became Managing Director.

In 2002 he returned to Bath as Director of Rugby.

External links

* [http://www.bathrugby.com/asp/players/playerProfile.asp?iID=97 Bath Rugby profile]