RUŽIĆ, Marijan – Mario ( Sušak, 09.02.1914.-Rijeka, 24.01.2009.)
Boćar, i sportski djelatnik. Sin Marijana i Zore, rođene
Čargonja. Završio je državnu realnu gimnaziju u Sušaku 1932. godine i
diplomirao na Pravnom fakultetu u Zagrebu 1937. godine.
Bio je sudionik NOB-a od 1943. Umirovljen je u činu
pukovnika JNA.
U boćarski sport uključio se u Rijeci kao član boćarskog
kluba Vežica. Nije bio aktivni igrač ali je dao veliki doprinos u
organizacijskim poslovima od gradske do savezne razine. Uz Miloša
Šepića i suradnike bio je inicijator osnivanja Boćarskog saveza Rijeke
( ranije Riječki boćarski podsavez). Na osnivačkoj skupštini BSR-a u prosincu
1973. izabran je za prvog predsjednika. Na čelu BSR-a bio je u vrijeme najveće
ekspanzije riječkog boćanja, kad su bili vodeće središte toga sporta u državi.
Bio je član Izvršnog odbora Boćarskog saveza Hrvatske i predsjednik boćarskog
sveza Jugoslavije (1977.-1981.). U njegovom mandatu u BSJ-u osvojene su za
jugoslavensko boćanje prve seniorske i juniorske medalje na svjetskim i
europskim prvenstvima. Obavljao je i dužnosti kao član raznih komisija, od
stručne i sudačke do komisija za propise na razini BSH i BSJ.
Bio je aktivan i u Zboru sudaca Rijeke kao član ispitnih
komisija. Od 1975. bio je član raznih komisija Međunarodne boćarske federacije
(FIB). Dao je doprinos i kao vrstan prevoditelj međunarodnih tehničkih
pravilnika i drugih pravilnika FIB-a. Zaslužan je uz M.Šepića, za
uvođenje grubih igrališnih podloga na boćališta. Zvanje saveznog boćarskog suca
stekao je 1971. Na svetskom kongresu FIB-a 1984. u Splitu izabran je kao prvi
boćarski dužnosnik iz Hrvatske i Jugoslavije, za doživotnog počasnog člana
FIB-a. jedan je od pojedinaca najzaslužnijih za razvoj boćanja u Rijeci i
Primorsko-goranskoj županiji.
Za svoje dugogodišnje djelovanje dobitnik je Zlatne boće u
povodu 30 godišnjice BSJ-a, 1982. Priznanja HBS-a povodom 50 godina boćanja u
Hrvatskoj, 2001. i zlatne plakete BZR-a povodom 50 godina Boćarskog saveza i
organiziranog boćanja u Rijeci,2002.
Preminuo je u 95. godini života kao najdugovječniji boćarski
dužnosnik u Hrvatskoj.
Lit.: Jakov Jakan Vidović, Sportsko boćanje, Zagreb, 1989.; Hrvatsko boćanje 1951. – 2001., Zagreb, 2001.; 50 godina Boćarskog saveza Rijeka i B.K. „Benčić GMT" Rijeka 1952. – 2002, Rijeka, 2002.; Damir Škarpa, Eduard Hemar, Zlatna knjiga hrvatskog boćanja, Zagreb, 2012.
RUŽIĆ, Marijan – Mario (Sušak, 9 Feb 1914 - Rijeka, 24 Jan
2009)
Bocce player and sports worker. Son of Marijan and Zora (née Čargonja).
He graduated from the state Grammar School in Sušak in 1932 and the Faculty of
Law in Zagreb in 1937.
Marijan Ružić was a member of the National Liberation Army from 1943,
and retired with the rank of colonel of the Yugoslav People’s Army.
Ružić became involved in bocce in Rijeka as a member of the Bocce Club
Vežica. While not an active player himself, he made great contributions in
organizational affairs ranging from the local to the federation level. Along
with Miloš Šepić and his associates, he became the initiator
of the establishment of the Bocce Association of the City of Rijeka (formerly
the Rijeka Chapter of the Bocce Federation). At the Founding Assembly of BAR in
December 1973, he was elected its first president. He was the head of BAR at
the time of the greatest expansion of Rijeka bocce, when it was the leading
center of that sport in the country. He was a member of the Executive Board of
the Croatian Bocce Federation and the president of the Bocce Federation of Yugoslavia
(1977-1981). During his term in BFY, the first senior and junior medals at the
world and European championships were won for Yugoslav bocce. He also performed
duties as a member of various commissions, from professional and judicial to
commissions for regulations at the level of CBF and BFY.
Ružić was also active in the Assembly of Referees of Rijeka as a member
of the examination commissions. From 1975, he was a member of various
commissions of the International Bocce Federation (Fédération Internationale
de Boules). He also contributed as a translator of international technical
regulations and other FIB regulations. He is credited, along with Miloš
Šepić, for the introduction of rough playing surfaces on bocce courts. He
earned the title of federal bocce referee in 1971. At the FIB world congress in
1984 in Split (Croatia), he was elected as the first bocce official from
Croatia and Yugoslavia, as a lifetime honorary member of the FIB, and is
credited as one of the individuals most responsible for the development of
bocce in Rijeka and the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County.
In 1982, he received the Golden Bocce award on the occasion of the 30th
anniversary of BFY for his many years of service to this sport, a CBF
recognition on the occasion of 50 years of bocce in Croatia in 2001, and the
BAR Golden Plaque on the occasion of 50 years of the Bocce Association and
organized bocce in Rijeka in 2002.
He died at the age of 95 as the longest-serving bocce official in
Croatia.
References: Jakov
Jakan Vidović, Sportsko boćanje [Sports Bocce], Zagreb, 1989; Hrvatsko boćanje
1951 – 2001 [Croatian Bocce 1951 - 2001], Zagreb, 2001; 50 godina Boćarskog
saveza Rijeka i B.K. "Benčić GMT” Rijeka 1952 – 2002 [50 Years of the
Bocce Association of the City of Rijeka and B.K. "Benčić GMT” Rijeka 1952
– 2002], Rijeka, 2002; Damir Škarpa, Eduard Hemar, Zlatna knjiga hrvatskog
boćanja [Golden Book of Croatian Bocce], Zagreb, 2012.
