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1922–23 Scottish Districts Season
The 1922–23 Scottish Districts season is a record of all the rugby union Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ... matches for Scotland's district teams. History Edinburgh District beat Glasgow District in the Inter-City match. Results Inter-City Glasgow District: Edinburgh District: Other Scottish matches Inverness-shire and Ross-shire: Aberdeenshire: Midlands District: Donald (Kirkcaldy); McKenzie, Muir, Wighton ( Dundee HSFP), and Jenkins (captain) (Dunfermline); Craig (St Andrews University) and Wilson; Black (Dunfermline), Hobb ( Dundee HSFP), Andersen, Stevenson (St Andrews University), J. H. S. Davidson, R. Bonthrone (Howe of Fife), Brackenridge (Panmure), Howie (Kirkcaldy), and Robertson (Dunfermline). North of Scotland District: Jarvi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1921–22 Scottish Districts Season
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Midlands District (rugby Union)
Midlands District was a select provincial amateur rugby union team that drew its players mainly from central east Scotland, roughly corresponding from around Stirlingshire, east to Fife and northwards to Perthshire and Angus. Historically the Midlands team played against other Scottish districts, and provided players to the North of ScotlandMidlands First and Last. John Methven. H.B Rutherford publishers. 1989 Often, the Midland and North Districts played in a trial match against one another to determine selection for the side. After the start of the Scottish Inter-District Championship in 1953–54 season, the Midlands District complained to the Scottish Rugby Union that the North of Scotland District side which competed in that first championship had several Midlands players in its squad and that the Midlands should receive equal recognition for providing their players to the North of Scotland District team. The SRU agreed and the combined team became formally known as North ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scotland Possibles
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South Of Scotland District (rugby Union)
The South of Scotland District is a Scottish amateur rugby union team which plays in the amateur Scottish Inter-District Championship. It draws its players from the South of Scotland, mainly the Scottish Borders where there has always been a proud tradition of rugby union. Historically the South team played matches against touring teams visiting Scotland from abroad, and also competed in the Scottish Inter-District Championship. After rugby union became a professional sport in 1995, the team was replaced in 1996 by the new Border Reivers team based in the same geographical area as the South and who wore the same colours as the old team. When the professional Border Reivers provincial side folded in 1998, the South amateur district was resurrected and renamed Scottish Borders. The team played as Scottish Borders in three seasons of an amateur Scottish Inter-District Championship from 1999 to 2002. However, when the amateur district championship was again revived in the 2022-23 se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dundee HSFP
Dundee HSFP is a former rugby union team that played their home games at the Mayfield Playing Fields, Dundee, Scotland. The club disbanded in 2021. The team was founded in 1880 by former pupils of the High School of Dundee. The men's side played in ; the women's side, known as the Dundee Valkyries, played in the until 2021 when the club merged with Morgan Rugby Club to form "Dundee Rugby Club". History Beginnings No doubt inspired by Abertay's Louis Auldjo, Dundee's first international rugby player, who had represented Scotland against England at the Oval in 1878, Dundee High School Former Pupils' Rugby Football Club was formed in 1880 by a group of schoolfriends and rugby aficionados, David Hynd, David Hutchison and Tom Ferguson, the principals of the affectionately monikered "Maryfield Gang" after the scrap of wasteland on which they would play after school. With no sport on the school curriculum in the 19th century, the boys passionately followed local teams Abertay and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladybank
Ladybank () is a village and former burgh of Fife, Scotland. It is about north of Edinburgh, southwest of Cupar, close to the River Eden, Fife, River Eden. Its 2006 population was estimated at 1,582. History Before the 18th century, this area was mostly marshland. In 1247 Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester granted the monks of Lindores Abbey the right to cut peat from a peat-moss called Monegre, to which monks gave the name ''Our Lady's Bog'' (the southwestern part of the village is still called ''Monkstown''). Over time this name was shortened to ''Ladybog''. When the Edinburgh and Northern Railway was constructed in the 1840s, a junction was built here with lines heading towards Perth, Scotland, Perth and Dundee. An engine depot (of which only the disused locomotive shed survives) and a railway station were constructed at the junction. The station was named 'Ladybank Station' rather than 'Ladybog Station', and the village that developed around the station took the name ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Of Scotland District (rugby Union)
North of Scotland was a select provincial amateur rugby union team that drew its players mainly from north of Scotland, roughly corresponding from around Aberdeenshire west and northwards. Confusingly the name North of Scotland was also used for a larger 'combined district' of the North of Scotland District and the Midlands District. This lack of recognition for the Midlands District, when the 'North of Scotland' name was used for the combined side, was finally ended in 1978. After this the 'combined district' became known as North and Midlands, although the 'North and Midlands' name was used from 1954 in the Scottish Inter-District Championship. The name of North of Scotland was then only used for the Aberdeenshire and Highland district. Formation A North v Midlands match took place on 17 December 1881. A North v South trial match was played on 31 December 1881. The North v South match did come off on 30 December 1882; the North winning by 1 try to nil. A North v South t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willie Burnet
Willie Burnet (1862–1944), was a Scottish rugby union footballer of the 1880s, who played in Scotland for Hawick, and was selected to play at a representative level for the British Isles on the 1888 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia, the first tour by a team representing the British Isles. He and his brother Bob were the first set of brothers to tour together for the Lions. Early life and career William Hewitson Burnet was born on 15 May 1862 in Hawick, Scotland to William Burnet and Joan (nee Smith). His father was a successful boot and shoe maker, employing a number of men at his firm in Hawick. Robert had a number of siblings including an older sister, Jane, two older brothers James and Robert and a younger brother, John. Domestic career Willie Burnet played for six seasons for Hawick RFC up to 1888. He was captain of the club in the 1883–1884 season and was also selected to play for his county side, Roxburgh. In addition he was selected to play for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1923–24 Scottish Districts Season
The 1923–24 Scottish Districts season is a record of all the rugby union matches for Scotland's district teams. History Edinburgh District drew with Glasgow District in the Inter-City match. Results Inter-City Glasgow District: Edinburgh District: Other Scottish matches Midlands District: G. L. Patullo (Panmure), W. .T. Webster (Panmure), J. Lindsay (Howe of Fife), A. Wighton (Dundee H.S.), J. A. Williamson (St Andrews), and R. Kinnison (St Andrews) ; T. Syme (Dundee H.S.) and Bob Howie (Kirkcaldy Kirkcaldy ( ; ; ) is a town and former royal burgh in Fife, on the east coast of Scotland. It is about north of Edinburgh and south-southwest of Dundee. The town had a recorded population of 49,460 in 2011, making it Fife's second-largest s ...); W. G. K. Finlay (Perth), S. C. Sharp (Panmure), J Wright (St Andrews), A. A. Marr (Panmure), D. H. Cameron (Dundee H.S.), E. Simpson (Dunfermline), and J. H. S. Davidson (Howe of Fife). North of Scotland District: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glasgow
Glasgow is the Cities of Scotland, most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in Strathclyde, west central Scotland. It is the List of cities in the United Kingdom, third-most-populous city in the United Kingdom and the 27th-most-populous city in Europe, and comprises Wards of Glasgow, 23 wards which represent the areas of the city within Glasgow City Council. Glasgow is a leading city in Scotland for finance, shopping, industry, culture and fashion, and was commonly referred to as the "second city of the British Empire" for much of the Victorian era, Victorian and Edwardian eras. In , it had an estimated population as a defined locality of . More than 1,000,000 people live in the Greater Glasgow contiguous urban area, while the wider Glasgow City Region is home to more than 1,800,000 people (its defined functional urban area total was almost the same in 2020), around a third of Scotland's population. The city has a population density of 3,562 p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Anniesland
New Anniesland is a sports ground in the Anniesland area of Glasgow, Scotland, used for rugby union and cricket. Owned by The Glasgow Academical Club, a sports and social club for alumni of The Glasgow Academy, it is the home ground of Glasgow Academicals RFC and Glasgow Academical Cricket Club. History New Anniesland was opened in 1902, following The Glasgow Academy's purchase of farmland adjacent to their existing sports ground, which they had occupied since 1883. The original ground, subsequently called Old Anniesland, was then taken over by the University of Glasgow. A cricket pavilion, groundsman's house and small grandstand, designed by the Laird brothers, were built in 1908. The ground also included curling rinks at this time. The original pavilion is still in use by the Glasgow Academical Cricket Club in the 21st century, albeit with later extensions, and is thought to be the oldest cricket pavilion in Glasgow. Wooden terraces and stands were constructed for rugby match ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
