Former All-American guard inducted into US Rugby Hall of Fame

Mickey Ording, BS '63, MEd '72 (foreground, above), a former All-American guard for the University of Oregon football team, has been inducted into the US Rugby Hall of Fame. Ording also played rugby for the Ducks from 1960-62, and then went on to play for the Olympic Club and the XO Rugby Club, where he played until 1982. He was selected to start at tight-head prop against Australia in the United States’ first game of the modern era in Los Angeles on January 31, 1976. He went on to play in three of the next four Eagles matches, including against an England XV on the 1977 Eagles tour to England. His last test was in a win against Canada in Baltimore in 1978. His career also included the US Cougars tour of South Africa and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 1979.

The United States Rugby Foundation's 2015 inductees into the U.S. Rugby Hall of Fame are:

Tom Billups
Ed Burlingham
Bill Fraumann
Patty Jervey
Jeff Lombard
Don Morrison
Mickey Ording
Dick Poulson
Mike Purcell
Rudy Scholz
Emil Signes
Bob Watkins

The 12 members of the Class of 2015 were elected by the USRF Board of Trustees after receiving recommendations from a Selection Committee composed of USRF Directors and Trustees who examined and reviewed a record number of nominations. Like those previously inducted, the Class of 2015 is comprised of individuals who have made their mark in United States rugby. They will be inducted at the USRF’s Hall of Fame Dinner which will be held in conjunction with an Eagles game and determined when the Eagles 2015 schedule is announced.