Rugby player
| Birth name | Alexander Thomson Wood | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1848-04-30)30 April 1848 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Kirktown of Fetteresso, Aberdeenshire, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 26 October 1905(1905-10-26) (aged 57) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Stonehaven, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alexander Wood (30 April 1848 – 26 October 1905) was a Scotland international rugby union player who represented Scotland from 1873 to 1875.
Rugby Union career
Amateur career
Wood played for Royal HSFP.
Provincial career
Wood represented Edinburgh District against Glasgow District in the world's second provincial match, the 'inter-city', on 15 February 1873.
Wood next played for the District on 5 December 1874 and 20 February 1875.
International career
Wood's international debut was the home match against England on 3 March 1873 at Glasgow.
Wood played again for Scotland, against England, in the following year's fixture at The Oval on 23 February 1874.
Wood's last match for Scotland, again against England, was the fixture at Raeburn Place, Edinburgh on 8 March 1875.
References
- "Alexander Thomson Wood". ESPN scrum.
- Scotland. The Essential History of Rugby Union. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths. Headline Publishing. 2003.
- "Register". Retrieved 17 March 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
- "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
- "Scotland v England". ESPN scrum.
- "England v Scotland". ESPN scrum.
- "Scotland v England". ESPN scrum.
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