COACHING/EXECUTIVE CAREER
COACH, REGINA BOAT CLUB     1922-1923
PRESIDENT, REGINA ROUGHRIDERS    1934-1936
PRESIDENT, WESTERN INTERPROVINCIAL FOOTBALL UNION 1937, 1941-1942
PRESIDENT, CANADIAN RUGBY UNION    1946

GREY CUP PARTICIPATION (EXECUTIVE)   1934

NEIL JOSEPH "PIFFLES" TAYLOR, A NATIVE OF ONTARIO, WAS LARGELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF FOOTBALL IN WESTERN CANADA.

AFTER HIS PLAYING DAYS, TAYLOR COACHED THE REGINA BOAT CLUB SENIORS IN 1922. THE FOLLOWING YEAR HE COACHED THEIR JUNIOR SQUAD WHEN THE SENIORS DISBANDED.  IN 1926 HE BEGAN HIS LONG SERVICE ON THE ROUGHRIDERS' EXECUTIVE AND WAS PRESIDENT OF THE CLUB DURING THE DIFFICULT 1930'S. HE WAS PRESIDENT OF THE WESTERN UNION FOR THREE YEARS AND HAD ONE SEASON AT THE HELM OF THE CANADIAN RUGBY UNION BEFORE HIS SUDDEN DEATH IN 1947.

SASKATCHEWAN’S TAYLOR FIELD AT MOSAIC STADIUM IS NAMED IN HIS HONOUR.  THE CANADIAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE'S WESTERN CHAMPIONS ANNUALLY RECEIVED THE N.J. "PIFFLES" TAYLOR TROPHY UNTIL IT WAS RETIRED IN 2004.

INDUCTED 1963 – BUILDER

CHARTER MEMBER

Class of 1963 Earl Grey, D. Wes Brown, John DeGruchy, "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, Frank "Shag" Shaughnessy, Benjamin L. Simpson, Hugh Gall, Percy Molson, Eddie Emerson, Joe Krol, Russ Rebholz