Bob Wilson (rugby union)
Birth name | Robert Little Wilson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 1 July 1926 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Galashiels, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 29 March 1985 | (aged 58)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bob Wilson (1 July 1926 – 29 March 1985) was a former Scotland international rugby union player. Wilson played as a Prop.[1]
Rugby career
[edit]Amateur career
[edit]Wilson played for Gala.[2] South of Scotland, Barbarians and Scotland. A fine exponent of the 7s game and part of the Gala 7 who won a number of tournaments on the Borders 7s circuit in the early 1950s. He also played for Gala at the Middlesex 7s.
Provincial career
[edit]Wilson played for South.He captained the South against the All Blacks in 1953. He played in the 1953–54 Scottish Inter-District Championship - the very first Scottish Inter-District Championship - and captained the side against Glasgow District.[3] He played for the Barbarians in the 1952 Easter Tour of Wales.
International career
[edit]He was capped for Scotland 8 times between 1951 and 1953, playing in 7 Five Nations matches and he was also capped playing against South Africa.[4][5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Robert Little Wilson".
- ^ The Essential History of Rugby Union: Scotland. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths.
- ^ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search".
- ^ "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Bob Wilson - Test matches".
- ^ "Information - Gala Rugby". Archived from the original on 17 January 2016. Retrieved 9 February 2017.