Rugby player
| Birth name | Robert Mitchell Bruce | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1922-06-19)19 June 1922 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Aberdeen, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 16 June 2001(2001-06-16) (aged 78) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Robert Bruce (19 June 1922 – 16 June 2001) was a Scotland international rugby union player.
Rugby Union career
Amateur career
He played for Gordonians. He was the first Gordonians player to be capped for Scotland.
Provincial career
Bruce was capped for North of Scotland District.
He played for the combined North of Scotland District side (a defacto North and Midlands side) in their match against Australia in October 1947.
He turned out for the Scotland Probables side on 20 December 1947.
International career
He was capped 4 times for Scotland in the period 1947 to 1948.
Administrative career
He was the North of Scotland district secretary for many years.
Banking career
He joined Aberdeen Savings Bank at the age of 18, and became manager of their Stornoway branch in 1952.
While in Stornoway he founded Stornoway RFC.
References
- "Robert Mitchell Bruce". ESPN scrum.
- ^ "Robert Bruce". HeraldScotland.
- "Register". Retrieved 16 March 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- "Register". Retrieved 16 March 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- "Register". Retrieved 16 March 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Robert Bruce - Test matches". ESPN scrum.