Rugby player
| Birth name | William Copeland Wood Murdoch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | Oct. 3, 1914 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Old Kilpatrick, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | October 12, 1987 1987 (aged 72–73) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Helensburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | Rugby union referee | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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William Copeland Wood Murdoch (3 October 1914, Old Kilpatrick – October 1987, Helensburgh) was a Scottish international rugby union 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 Second World War – he gained his first cap in 1935, and his last in 1948. He gained four caps in the 1947–48 season. This gives him one of the longest international careers on record. Only he and W.B. Young were capped on either side of the War.
Referee career
In later life, he became a referee.
References
- ^ Player profile on scrum.com. Retrieved 15 February 2010
- ^ Cotton, p75
- Jones, pp56,57
- Sources
- Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
- Cotton, Fran (Ed.) (1984) The Book of Rugby Disasters & Bizarre Records. Compiled by Chris Rhys. London. Century Publishing. ISBN 0-7126-0911-3
- Jones, J.R. Encyclopedia of Rugby Union Football (Robert Hale, London, 1976 ISBN 0-7091-5394-5)
- Massie, Allan A Portrait of Scottish Rugby (Polygon, Edinburgh; ISBN 0-904919-84-6)
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- 1914 births
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- Scottish rugby union players
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