William Copeland Wood Murdoch (3 October 1914,

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– October 1987,

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on scrum.com. Retrieved 15 February 2010) was a Scottish international

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player who played at full-back.

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

Murdoch played for Hillhead HSFP

Provincial career

Murdoch played for Glasgow District

International career

He was capped a total of nine times, but there was an extremely long hiatus in his career due to the

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– he gained his first cap in 1935, and his last in 1948.Cotton, p75 He gained four caps in the 1947–48 season. This gives him one of the longest international careers on record.Jones, pp56,57 Only he and

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were capped on either side of the War.

Referee career

In later life, he became a referee.

References

;Sources # Bath, Richard (ed.) ''The Scotland Rugby Miscellany'' (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ) # Cotton, Fran (Ed.) (1984) ''The Book of Rugby Disasters & Bizarre Records''. Compiled by Chris Rhys. London. Century Publishing. # Jones, J.R. ''Encyclopedia of Rugby Union Football'' (Robert Hale, London, 1976 ) # Massie, Allan ''A Portrait of Scottish Rugby'' (Polygon, Edinburgh; ) 1910s births 1987 deaths Scottish rugby union players Scottish rugby union referees Scotland international rugby union players Hillhead RFC players Scottish Inter-District Championship referees Glasgow District (rugby union) players Rugby union players from West Dunbartonshire {{Scotland-rugbyunion-bio-stub