# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ned-haig
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:42:35.768Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ned-haig"
name: "Ned Haig"
slug: "ned-haig"
description: "Ned Haig was a butcher and rugby union player notable for founding the sport of rugby sevens. He moved to Melrose when he was young. There he took up rugby and joined Melrose Rugby Football Club (RFC) in 1880. In 1883 Haig suggested hosting a sports tournament to help raise money for the Melrose RFC and came up with the idea of playing with seven rather than 15 a side and reducing the match length to 15 minutes."
tagline: "Inventor of rugby sevens (1858–1939)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1858-12-07"
deathDate: "1939-03-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.29
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.538769333333335
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%86%85%E5%BE%B7%C2%B7%E9%BB%91%E6%A0%BC"
    title: "内德·黑格"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%AC"
    title: "نيد هيج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Haig"
    title: "Ned Haig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Haig"
    title: "Ned Haig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Haig"
    title: "Ned Haig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Haig"
    title: "Ned Haig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Haig"
    title: "Ned Haig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q522429"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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