Talk:Henry Fox (sportsman)

Rugby umpire?
"After retiring as a rugby player, he continued to take part as an umpire." The official in Rugby Union is a referee. I see the cited source, a newspaper report, does use "umpired" but perhaps the journalist was more familiar with cricket. I am inclined to alter to referee. Nedrutland (talk) 11:16, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I initially used referee, but then I was reading some other reports, and he is listed as an umpire, in matches that have a different person listed as a referee. I don't know whether they used the term for what we now call touch judges, or whether it was another role. Hence, I have simply followed the source in its terminology. Harrias talk 11:28, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
 * After some more research on this, I'm reasonably certain that the "umpire" role was a precursor to touch judges. It doesn't seem to have been exactly the same, but similar, so I have left it as umpire in the article, but piped it to touch judge. Harrias talk 11:58, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the response - very interesting; I had never heard of umpire used in that sense. Nedrutland (talk) 08:25, 2 November 2015 (UTC)