# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/danie-craven
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:09:15.095Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/danie-craven"
name: "Danie Craven"
slug: "danie-craven"
description: "Daniël Hartman Craven was a South African rugby union player (1931–1938), national coach, national and international rugby administrator, academic, and author. Popularly known as Danie, Doc, or Mr Rugby, Craven's appointment from 1949 to 1956 as coach of the Springboks signalled \"one of the most successful spells in South African rugby history\" during which the national team won 74% of their matches. While as a player Craven is mostly remembered as one of rugby's greatest dive-passing scrumhalves ever, he had also on occasion been selected to play for the Springboks as a centre, fly-half, No.8, and full-back. As the longest-serving President of the South African Rugby Board (1956–93) and chairman of the International Rugby Board, Craven became one of the best-known and most controversial rugby administrators. In 1969, Craven sparked outrage among anti-apartheid activists when he allegedly said, \"There will be a black springbok over my dead body\". Craven denied saying this and in his later career promoted black and coloured training facilities."
tagline: "South African rugby union footballer, coach and administrator (1910-1993)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Danie_Craven_1973.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1910-10-11"
deathDate: "1993-01-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.57
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.027972
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Danie_Craven"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danie_Craven"
    title: "Danie Craven"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danie_Craven"
    title: "Danie Craven"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danie_Craven"
    title: "Danie Craven"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danie_Craven"
    title: "Danie Craven"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danie_Craven"
    title: "Danie Craven"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danie_Craven"
    title: "Danie Craven"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danie_Craven"
    title: "Danie Craven"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q742873"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump