Alexander Wood (rugby union)
Birth name | Alexander Thomson Wood | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 30 April 1848 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Kirktown of Fetteresso, Aberdeenshire, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 26 October 1905 | (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.[1]
Rugby Union career
[edit]Amateur career
[edit]Wood played for Royal HSFP.[2]
Provincial career
[edit]Wood represented Edinburgh District against Glasgow District in the world's second provincial match, the 'inter-city', on 15 February 1873.[3]
Wood next played for the District on 5 December 1874 and 20 February 1875.[4][5]
International career
[edit]Wood's international debut was the home match against England on 3 March 1873 at Glasgow.[6]
Wood played again for Scotland, against England, in the following year's fixture at The Oval on 23 February 1874.[7]
Wood's last match for Scotland, again against England, was the fixture at Raeburn Place, Edinburgh on 8 March 1875.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "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.