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Sydney "Syd" Nomis (born 15 November 1941 in Johannesburg) is a former South African national rugby union player who until 2001 held the record for most consecutive matches (25) played for the Springboks.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sydney Nomis )〕 Nomis is best remembered for tries that he scored against France in 1968 and the All Blacks in 1970. Along with Okey Geffin, Nomis is considered one of the greatest Jewish rugby players of all time, and is a member of the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. He was inducted in 1999. == Early career == Nomis played club rugby for Wanderers in Johannesburg, in a league that included Iscor, Diggers, Vanderbijlpark and Police teams. Nomis recalled in a 2008 interview with Dave Gemmell how hard and dirty the game had been. He revealed that he while playing club rugby he also occasionally received slurs, with opponents calling him a "Blerrie Jood" (for "Bloody Jew" ). Nomis remembered injuring one such a player to the extent that he had to be carried off the field. " 'If you played rugby then, that was how it was played, there was no other way...club rugby was almost harder than international rugby.' " Nomis said that he only experienced anti-Semitism at club level. But " 'after the game we would have a beer together and we would be big mates.' " And national rugby official Danie Craven at the time believed that selecting a Jew and a policeman brought luck to the Springbok team.〔 In 1961, and again in 1962, Nomis was selected to play for the Quaggas, an invitational South African team styled after the Barbarians. He spent his provincial rugby career at the Transvaal Rugby Union, for whom he was first selected in 1963.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Syd Nomis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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