Alumni Newsletter December 2014

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Alumni Newsletter December 2014 Consider liking us following on Facebook (Belfast Royal Academy) or following on twitter (@belfastroyalac)

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ALUMNI NEWS JACK KYLE – An Obituary… It was with great sadness that the Academy community heard of the death of Dr. Jack Kyle on 28th November 2014. One of Ireland’s greatest rugby players, John Wilson Kyle was a pupil at the Academy between 1930 and 1944, and during his last terms at school, 1943-44, he was Head Boy, captain of rugby and captain of cricket. He was renowned for his acceleration and balanced running in attack, and for his anticipation in defence, and later won most of the honours that rugby has to offer. Those who packed the touchlines at the Castle Grounds and the terraces at Ravenhill were treated to displays of spectacular rugby. His try at Ravenhill during the Ireland-France International in 1953 was described at the time as the best post-war international try. Kyle’s long, swerving run untouched by a single French player was saluted even by a French journalist in the press box as “magnifique, magnifique, fabuleux!” When he retired to Northern Ireland after working for more than thirty years as a surgeon in Chingola in Zambia, he was a great supporter of the school. Good-humoured, modest and humane, his was a life well lived: most of it lived far from the arena of his fame and in the service of others. If a school is judged by the quality of its former pupils, we can be proud indeed to be associated with Jack Kyle. ALUMNI NEWSLETTER – December 2014

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