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Glasgow District (rugby Union)
Glasgow District was a Scottish amateur rugby union team which now plays as the professional provincial side Glasgow Warriors. Founded in 1872 it was a select provincial amateur rugby union team that drew its players mainly from the Greater Glasgow area, as well as others from the rest of the west of Scotland; roughly corresponding to the old Strathclyde regional council area. Historically the Glasgow District team played matches against touring teams visiting Scotland from abroad, and also competed in the Scottish Inter-District Championship. The Glasgow District rugby union team was founded in 1872. The team played the world's first inter-district match that year against Edinburgh District rugby union team. The amateur Glasgow District side evolved into the professional Glasgow Warriors side in 1996; one year after rugby union allowed professionalism in 1995. Formation The Glasgow District side was formed in 1872 to play against an Edinburgh District side. The teams met o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glasgow Warriors
Glasgow Warriors are a professional rugby union side from Scotland. The team plays in the United Rugby Championship league and in the European Professional Club Rugby tournaments. In the 2014–15 season they won the Pro12 title and became the first Scottish team to win a major trophy in rugby union's professional era. The side is known for its fast, dynamic and attacking style of play, using offloads and quick rucks. Defensively the club prides itself on its 'Fortress Scotstoun' where the club play at home. History Glasgow Warriors are a continuation of the amateur Glasgow District side founded in 1872. For the history of Glasgow as an amateur district side see: Reshaped as a professional club in 1996, Glasgow Warriors were originally known as Glasgow Rugby before rebranding as Glasgow Caledonians in 1998 by a merger with the Caledonian Reds. They dropped the Caledonians to become Glasgow Rugby in 2001 again and finally rebranded as the Glasgow Warriors in 2005. Origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry William Allan (rugby Union)
Henry William Allan (2 April 1850 – 12 December 1926) was a Scottish rugby union international who represented Scotland in the 1873–74 Home Nations rugby union matches The 1873–74 Home Nations rugby union matches was a single international friendly held between the England and Scotland national rugby union teams. With no other recognised rugby union teams in Britain or the rest of the World, the encounter betwee .... He played as a forward for Glasgow Academicals. He represented Glasgow District against Edinburgh District in the world's first provincial match, the 'inter-city', on 23 November 1872. He also represented Glasgow District against Edinburgh District in the 5 December 1874 match. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Allan, Henry William Scottish rugby union players Scotland international rugby union players Rugby union forwards Glasgow District (rugby union) players Glasgow Academicals rugby union players 1850 births 1926 deaths Rugby union players from Glasg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Melville Napier
Henry Melvill Napier (2 May 1854 – 18 December 1940) was a Scottish rugby union international who represented Scotland in the 1876–77 Home Nations rugby union matches, 1877–78 Home Nations rugby union matches, 1878–79 Home Nations rugby union matches and 1879–80 Home Nations rugby union matches. Napier was also a noted engineer and shipbuilder. Rugby Union career Amateur career Napier played as a forward for Glasgow University RFC and West of Scotland. Provincial career He represented Glasgow District against Edinburgh District in the 5 December 1874 match. He also represented the West of Scotland District. International career Although he gained Glasgow district cap while with the university, he gained his Scotland caps while with West of Scotland. Shipbuilding Napier was an engineer and shipbuilder. As a founder of Napier and Miller, a shipbuilding firm based first at Yoker, Glasgow - though then part of West Dunbartonshire - in 1898; then moving to Ol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Alexander Neilson
John Neilson (14 June 1858 – 16 July 1915) was a Scottish international rugby union player. He played as a forward. He played for West of Scotland before moving on to Glasgow Academicals. He was called up for the Glasgow District side for the 1874 provincial match against Edinburgh District on 5 December 1874 while still with West of Scotland. He also played in Glasgow's first winning side against Edinburgh in 1881. He was called up to the Scotland squad in March 1878 and played England at The Oval on 4 March 1878. He was also called up the following year for the England match at Raeburn Place, Edinburgh on 10 March 1879. At the time of his international caps he was playing for Glasgow Academicals The Glasgow Academical Football Club is the third oldest rugby football club in Scotland. The club was also a founder member of the Scottish Football Union (the future SRU) in 1873. History Glasgow Hawks In 1997 the decision was made to .... His brother Tom Pat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Paterson Neilson
Tom Neilson (22 October 1851 – 19 January 1909) was a Scottish international rugby union player. He played as a forward. He played for West of Scotland, one of the top teams in Scotland at the time. He was called up for the Glasgow District side for the 1874 provincial match against Edinburgh District on 5 December 1874. He was called up to the Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ... squad in February 1874 and played England at The Oval on 23 February 1874. His brother John Alexander Neilson also played rugby union for Glasgow District and Scotland. References 1851 births 1909 deaths Scottish rugby union players Scotland international rugby union players History of rugby union in Scotland West of Scotland FC players Glasgow District (rug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Arthur (rugby Union)
Sir Allan Arthur was a Scotland international rugby football player.Bath, p136 He later moved to India as a merchant, where he became a civil servant. He was knighted in 1900 for his Indian public service work. He was named as one of Queen Victoria's birthday knights. Rugby Union career Amateur career Arthur went to school at Glasgow Academy and then Merchiston College. Arthur played for Glasgow Academicals The Glasgow Academical Football Club is the third oldest rugby football club in Scotland. The club was also a founder member of the Scottish Football Union (the future SRU) in 1873. History Glasgow Hawks In 1997 the decision was made to .... Provincial career Arthur was capped by Glasgow District. He also played for the West of Scotland District on 28 February 1876. International career He was capped twice for between 1875 and 1876. Horse-racing career The newspaper ''The Sportsman'' noted in its obituary of Arthur that he was a noted owner of race h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilbert Heron
Gilbert Heron sometimes as Gilbert Haron (6 September 1854 – 18 March 1876) was a Scottish international rugby union player. He played as a forward. He played for Glasgow Academicals, one of the top teams in Scotland at the time. He was called up for the Glasgow District side for the 1874 provincial match against Edinburgh District on 5 December 1874. He was called up to the Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ... squad in February 1874 and played England at The Oval on 23 February 1874. A year later he was called up to 8 March 1875 match against England in Raeburn Place, Edinburgh. References 1854 births 1876 deaths Glasgow Academicals rugby union players Glasgow District (rugby union) players History of rugby union in Scotland Rugby uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm Cross
Malcolm Cross was a Scotland international rugby union player.Bath, p136 Rugby Union career Amateur career He played for Merchistonians. Provincial career Cross was capped by Glasgow District to play against Edinburgh District in the inter-city match. He was selected and played in the Blues Trial Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African- ... side of 1878. He played for West of Scotland District in March 1879. International career He was capped nine times for between 1875 and 1880. Family He was the brother of William Cross who was also capped for Scotland, and who scored the first ever conversion in international rugby. References ;Sources * Bath, Richard (ed.) ''The Scotland Rugby Miscellany'' (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ) 1856 births 1919 de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Stewart Carrick
James Stewart Carrick (4 September 1855 – 2 January 1923) was a Scottish rugby union and cricket player. He died in Seattle, Washington in 1923. Carrick was a genuine all-round sportsman, playing international rugby as a full-back for , and appeared in a few important cricket matches. He was clearly a highly accomplished player, the only batsman to take a century off Nottinghamshire CCC between 1887 and 1890 when they dominated county cricket. Rugby Union career Amateur career Carrick played with Glasgow Academicals.Bath, p104 Provincial career He also played at provincial level representing Glasgow District. He also represented the West of Scotland District. He was selected for the Whites Trial side in 1878. International career Carrick was capped for the Scotland international squad between 1876 and 1877. Referee career Carrick later became a rugby union referee. He refereed the East of Scotland District versus West of Scotland District match in 1886. He refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Newspaper Archive
The British Newspaper Archive web site provides access to searchable digitized archives of British and Irish newspapers. It was launched in November 2011. History The British Library Newspapers section was based in Colindale in north London, until 2013, and is now divided between the St Pancras and Boston Spa sites. The library has an almost complete collection of British and Irish newspapers since 1840. This is partly because of the legal deposit legislation of 1869, which required newspapers to supply a copy of each edition of a newspaper to the library. London editions of national daily and Sunday newspapers are complete back to 1801. In total, the collection consists of 660,000 bound volumes and 370,000 reels of microfilm containing tens of millions of newspapers with 52,000 titles on 45 km of shelves. After the closure of Colindale in November 2013, access to the 750 million original printed pages was maintained via an automated and climate-controlled storage facilit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamilton Crescent
Hamilton Crescent is a cricket ground in the Partick area of Glasgow, Scotland, which is the home of the West of Scotland Cricket Club. Hamilton Crescent hosted the first international football match, between Scotland and England, played on 30 November 1872, which ended in a goalless draw, and was watched by a crowd of 4,000. A plaque on the wall of the clubhouse was placed to commemorate the match in 2002 by Mr John C McGinn, President of the Scottish Football Association. Further international matches were held here in 1874 and 1876, before being moved to the first Hampden Park. The 1877 Scottish Cup Final was also held at Hamilton Crescent, as was a rugby union international when Scotland and Wales drew their match in the 1885 Home Nations Championship The 1885 Home Nations Championship was the third series of the rugby union Home Nations Championship. It was contested by England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, but the tournament was not completed. The 1885 Championship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Wilson (rugby Union, Born 1854)
Robert Wilson (4 February 1854 – 6 July 1911) was a Scotland international rugby union player who represented Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ... in 1873 and 1874. Rugby Union career Amateur career Wilson played for West of Scotland. Provincial career He represented Glasgow District against Edinburgh District in the world's first provincial match, the 'inter-city', on 23 November 1872. International career His international debut was the home match against England on 3 March 1873 at Glasgow. He played again for Scotland, against England, in the following year's fixture at The Oval on 23 February 1874. References 1854 births 1911 deaths Scottish rugby union players Scotland international rugby union players West of Scotland FC players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |