The Scotland national rugby union team represents the Scottish Rugby Union in men's international rugby union. The team takes part in the annual Six Nations Championship,where they are the current Calcutta Cup and Doddie Weir Cup holders. They also participate in the Rugby World Cup,which takes place every four years.
Andrew Gavin Hastings, is a Scottish former rugby union player. A fullback,he is widely regarded to be one of the best ever Scottish rugby players and was one of the outstanding players of his generation,winning 61 caps for Scotland,20 of which as captain. He played for Watsonians,London Scottish,Cambridge University,Scotland and the British Lions. He twice toured with the Lions,to Australia in 1989 and as captain on the 1993 tour to New Zealand.
James Telfer is a Scottish former rugby union coach and player. As a player,he won 21 international caps in the amateur era,also having a career as a headmaster at Hawick High School and Galashiels Academy and Forrester High School as a chemistry teacher. With Sir Ian McGeechan he had success with both the Scotland national team and the British Lions.
John Ross Beattie is a Scottish broadcaster and former rugby union player.
Roy James Laidlaw is a former Scotland international rugby union player.
Craig Minto Chalmers is a former Scotland international rugby union player and coach. He represented Scotland,the British Lions and the Barbarians at international level. He made 60 international appearances as a player for the Scotland national team and scored 166 points. He played at fly-half with his playing career beginning at Melrose in the amateur era and with the professional era seeing him play Border Reivers and Glasgow Warriors before moving on to English sides Harlequins,Worcester Warriors and Pertemp Bees. He had coaching roles with Melrose and the Scotland national under-20 rugby union team. He later has had a business career in security.
Heriot's Rugby Club,formerly known as Heriot's FP,is one of Scotland's senior rugby football clubs in the Scottish Rugby Union,whose part-timeprofessional team,Heriot's Rugby play in FOSROC Super 6 with the Men's 1st XV playing in the Men's Scottish Premiership. The women play in Scottish Womens Premiership.
Ayr Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club. Its professional men's side currently plays as Ayrshire Bulls in the Super 6 competition;and its women's side play in the Scottish Womens National One. The club also runs a "Club XV" which competes in the Tennent's National League 1,a 2nd XV "Ayr-Millbrae",which plays in the SRU West Reserve League Division 1,and various age group teams,from age 4,up to age 18.
Boroughmuir RFC is a rugby union club in the Scottish Rugby Union. The club's home ground is Meggetland,in southwest Edinburgh and the club plays in the Super 6,where they are known as the Boroughmuir Bears.
Edinburgh University Rugby Football Club is a leading rugby union side based in Edinburgh,Scotland which currently plays its fixtures in the Edinburgh Regional Shield competition and the British Universities Premiership. It is one of the eight founder members of the Scottish Rugby Union. In the years prior to the SRU's introduction of club leagues in 1973 and the advent of professionalism in the 1990s,EURFC was a major club power and it won the 'unofficial' Scottish Club championship several times. It remains a club with an all-student committee,and is only open to students of the University of Edinburgh. The club runs a men's team and a women's team;both playing in the university leagues.
Kenny Milne is a former Scotland international rugby union player who was capped 39 times. He was also a British &Irish Lion,touring in 1993.
George Philip Stewart Macpherson CBE TD also known as GPS Macpherson was a Scottish rugby union footballer who played for Scotland in 26 tests between 1922 and 1932.
The Glasgow Academical Football Club is the third oldest rugby football club in Scotland. The club was also a founder member of the Scottish Football Union in 1873.
Kenneth James Forbes Scotland was a Scotland international rugby union player and a Scotland international cricket player. He played at full-back in rugby union.
David Shedden was a Scotland international rugby union footballer,who played on the wing. He died in October 2017 aged 73.
Norman George Robertson Mair MBE was a Scottish international rugby union and cricket player. He later became a journalist for The Scotsman reporting on rugby and golf,and also wrote for Rugby World.
Richie Dixon is a former Scotland international rugby union player,the former head coach of the Scotland national team,the Georgia national team and Glasgow Caledonians. He was head of Physical Education at Currie High School in Edinburgh from 1972 until 1980.
Ian William Forsyth is a Scottish former rugby union player who won six international caps for the Scotland national rugby union team. He played at Centre.
Donna Kennedy is a Scottish rugby union coach and former international player who played for the national team from 1993 to 2010. She was the world's most-capped women's player from 2004 to 2016 and the first Scottish player —woman or man —to reach 100 international caps. As of November 2017,she remains the most-capped player in Scotland with 115 caps.
Dave McCall is a former Scotland 7s international rugby union player,previously with Glasgow Warriors and Edinburgh.
