Ray turnbull curler biography for kids
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Ray Turnbull (curler)
Canadian curler
Raymond Charles William "Moosie" Turnbull[1][2][3] (July 19, 1939 – October 6, 2017) was a Canadian curler, coach and broadcaster from Manitoba. From 1985 to 2010, he was a member of the TSN curling coverage team along with Vic Rauter and Linda Moore.
Curling
[edit]Turnbull won the 1965 Brier as the lead for the Terry Braunstein team. The team would finish second to the United States in the World Curling Championships. He was named the all-star lead at both competitions.[4]
Turnbull also represented Manitoba at two Canadian Senior Curling Championships, in 1994 and 1995.
Coaching
[edit]More than anyone else Ray Turnbull can be credited with taking curling around the world. Starting in the late 1960s Turnbull ran curling clinics across Europe, Japan and The United States. Ray Turnbull gets a fair share of the credit for teaching the Europeans both the technical skills and the strategy that saw the World Men's Championship trophy reside in Sweden, Norway or Switzerland six times between 1973 and 1984. Canada won only three times in that period. Beginning in 1979, European teams also won four of the first five World Women's championships while Canada earned only one win. Turnbull'
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Clan Turnbull facts for kids
Clan Turnbull is an armigerousScottish clan.
Origins of the name
A legendary account of the Turnbull name was told by Hector Boece, in his History of Scotland. Boece tells the legend that during the Wars of Scottish Independence William of Rule saved King Robert Bruce by wrestling to the ground a bull that had charged at the King. For this feat, the King rewarded William with the lands of Philiphaugh, now part of Selkirk, and dubbed him "Turnebull" (the "e" was later dropped).
The story of the young man who saved the life of Robert the Bruce, called Will-o-Rull is well known; also how Robert the Bruce changed his name to Turn-E-Bull. This later evolved to the name “Turnbull“.
The name of Rule is of quite ancient origin in the border counties of Scotland and in the north of England. It first appears in the fourth century when St. Regulus or St. Rule arrived on the shores of Scotland at what is now St. Andrews in Fife.
Another possibility that the family may have descended from Richard De Rollo, also known as Richard De Rule, claimed to have come to the British Isles about the time of William the Conqueror and descended from Rollo of Norway, Duke of Normandy (860–9