EXECUTIVE CAREER
PRESIDENT, ONTARIO RUGBY FOOTBALL UNION  25 YEARS
PRESIDENT, CANADIAN RUGBY UNION  1925, 1930, 1935

JOHN DeGRUCHY BEGAN HIS ASSOCIATION WITH AMATEUR ATHLETICS IN CANADA PRIOR TO 1900. AMONG OTHER SPORTS ORGANIZATIONS, HE WAS INVOLVED WITH THE TORONTO ATHLETIC CLUB AND THE TORONTO RUGBY AND ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION.

DeGRUCHY ORGANIZED THE TORONTO CITY SERIES AMONG THE ARGONAUTS, BALMY BEACH AND VARSITY.  HE DONATED THE REG DeGRUCHY MEMORIAL TROPHY FOR THE COMPETITION.

DURING HIS LONG SERVICE TO THE ORFU, DeGRUCHY PROMOTED THE THANKSGIVING DAY CLASSIC BETWEEN THE SARNIA IMPERIALS AND TORONTO BALMY BEACH. HE WAS ALSO A DRIVING FORCE BEHIND SIX-MAN FOOTBALL, A REVISED FORM OF THE SENIOR GAME WHICH WAS PLAYED EXTENSIVELY THROUGH THE 1940'S.

JOHN DeGRUCHY WAS A STUDENT OF RULES AND CONSTITUTIONS AND SERVED CANADIAN FOOTBALL IN MANY CAPACITIES FOR OVER 50 YEARS.

INDUCTED 1963 – BUILDER

CHARTER MEMBER

Class of 1963 Earl Grey, D. Wes Brown, "Seppi" DuMoulin, William C. Foulds, Frank J. Hannibal, Alvin Ritchie, Harry L. Batstone, Ormond Beach, Joseph M. Breen, Lionel P. Conacher, Ernest Cox, Jake Jacobs, Eddie "Dynamite" James, Fritz Hanson, Smirle Lawson, Frank R. "Pep" Leadlay, Norman Perry, Teddy Reeve, Jeff Russel, David S. Sprague, Brian M. Timmis, Dr. Harry Crawford Griffith, N.J. "Piffles" Taylor, Frank "Shag" Shaughnessy, Benjamin L. Simpson, Hugh Gall, Percy Molson, Eddie Emerson, Joe Krol, Russ Rebholz