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The 1959 News of the World Snooker Plus Tournament was a professional snooker tournament sponsored by the News of the World. The event was played under the Snooker Plus rules, a variant of snooker with two additional colours (orange and purple). The tournament was won by Joe Davis with Fred Davis finishing in second place.
This is a list of notable amateur and professional snooker players, past and present. ... Scott Donaldson (SCO) † [60]
This is a list of professional snooker players ordered by the number of "ranking titles" they have won. A ranking title is a tournament that counts towards the snooker world rankings. World rankings were introduced in the 1976–77 season, initially based on the results from the previous three World Championships.
John Joseph "Jackie" Rea was born on 6 April 1921 in Dungannon, County Tyrone, [1] and was the only child of Catherine and greyhound track manager Thomas. [2] He began playing snooker at the age of 9 in the billiards room of the pub his father managed in Dungannon, [3] but usually then played in boys' clubs until he was 21, as people under that age were not allowed in public bars. [2]
1967 in snooker (3 P) 1968 in snooker (1 C, 8 P) 1969 in snooker (5 P) This page was last edited on 5 September 2020, at 14:13 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
Joseph Davis OBE (15 April 1901 – 10 July 1978) was an English professional snooker and English billiards player. He was the dominant figure in snooker from the 1920s to the 1950s, and has been credited with inventing aspects of the way the game is now played, such as break-building.
Herbert John Pulman (12 December 1923 – 25 December 1998) was an English professional snooker player who was the World Snooker Champion from 1957 to 1968. He first won the title at the 1957 Championship and retained it across seven challenges from 1964 to 1968, three of them against Fred Davis and two against Rex Williams.
List of snooker players, a list of professional players from all eras; List of world snooker champions; List of snooker players by number of ranking titles; List of snooker world number ones; List of snooker players with over 100 century breaks