Jim Wylie
James Thomas Wylie was a New Zealand rugby union player, who represented both the country of his birth and Australian [national rugby union team|Australia]. He went on to coach the Stanford University rugby team for over 30 years from 1917.
Born in Galatea in 1887, Wylie was a tall man at, and played as a Rugby [union positions#Back row|loose forward]. He first represented in 1910, playing six matches, before moving to Sydney for the next two years. There he made four appearances for New [South Wales Waratahs|New South Wales] against Queensland, and in 1912 he was a member of the Australian team that Australia [rugby union tour">Australian national rugby union team">Australia [rugby union tour of Canada and the United States|toured North America]. Because of injury he only made four appearances on that tour, and did not play in the international against the United States. Wylie returned to New Zealand in 1913, making a further six appearances for Auckland, and being selected as a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks. He played an international against Australia in Wellington and then was a part of the 1913 [New Zealand rugby union tour of North America|tour of North America]. He played in 11 matches on that tour, including the test against the United States, in which he scored a try.
Wylie remained in the United States after the tour, and studied engineering at Stanford University, where he turned out for the university rugby team. In 1917, he became the Stanford rugby head coach, and continued in that role until at least 1948.