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Scotland international rugby union player (1928–2024)

Rugby player
Donald Scott
Birth nameDonald Macdonald Scott
Date of birth(1928-04-15)15 April 1928
Place of birthLangholm, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
Date of death22 June 2024(2024-06-22) (aged 96)
Place of deathEdinburgh, Scotland
Rugby union career
Position(s) Centre, wing
Amateur team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
Langholm ()
– Watsonians ()
Provincial / State sides
Years Team Apps (Points)
South ()
- Edinburgh District ()
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1950–53 Scotland 10 (0)

Donald Macdonald Scott (15 April 1928 – 22 June 2024) was a Scotland international rugby union player. Normally a centre, he also played on the wing.

Rugby career

Amateur career

Scott played for – and was internationally capped whilst at – Langholm and Watsonians.

Provincial career

He broke through while playing with Langholm to play for the South. He was part of the South team that beat North 10 points to 9 on 11 November 1950.

Whilst with Watsonians he played for Edinburgh District. He played in the 1952–53 season's Inter-City match but lost to Glasgow District.

He played in the Scottish Inter-District Championship in its first season. In that 1953–54 season, Edinburgh District won the first championship.

International career

He was capped for Scotland 11 times from 1950 to 1953, playing in nine Five Nations matches. He was capped at Centre and Wing.

He never scored an international try, though during the Five Nations match against England in 1950, both he and teammate Donald Sloan pounced on a high kick over the try line. As both got up, Scott patted Sloan on the back and the try was awarded to Sloan.

Scott also played in Scotland's 44–0 defeat to South Africa in 1951. He remembered: "When I played in any match there were three things I thought the man opposite me might do:- they would run at me and try to beat me; they would run at me and pass the ball; or they would kick the ball. Well, the South Africans did all that, but they also did something I had never seen before: they ran into you. They looked at you and said: come and take me. You watch rugby now and it is all about contact, and laying the ball off in different ways. That was the first time I saw that approach."

Outside of rugby

Scott was a teacher at George Watson's College. He coached the school's 1st XV at rugby union. Scott died at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh on 22 June 2024, at the age of 96.

References

  1. The Essential History of Rugby Union: Scotland. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths.
  2. "The Glasgow Herald – Google News Archive Search".
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  5. "Rugby Union – ESPN Scrum – Statsguru – Player analysis – Donald Scott – Test matches".
  6. "'Rock steady gentleman' of the rugby pitch passes away".
  7. "Scotland v England".
  8. "Scotland v South Africa: History offers red-blooded taste of battle".
  9. "Gavin Hastings: 'You learn more from defeat than victory'". Archived from the original on 15 August 2014.
  10. "Obituary: Donald Scott". Scottish Rugby. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  11. "Donald Scott". Legacy. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
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