Billy Munro (rugby union)

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Billy Munro
Birth nameWilliam Hutton Munro
Date of birth(1918-09-28)28 September 1918
Date of death12 September 1970(1970-09-12) (aged 51)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Centre
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
- Glasgow HSFP ()
Provincial / State sides
YearsTeamApps(Points)
Glasgow District ()
National team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1947 Scotland 2 (0)

Billy Munro (28 September 1918 - 12 September 1970) was a Scotland international rugby union player who played at centre. [1]

Contents

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

Munro played for Glasgow HSFP. [2]

Provincial career

Munro played for Glasgow District. [3]

International career

He was capped a total of two times for the Scotland international team. Both caps were in 1947. [4]

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References

  1. "William Hutton Munro".
  2. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-WdAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=kJQMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4765%2C5294810 [ bare URL ]
  3. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19471208/064/0002.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Billy Munro - Test matches".
Sources
  1. Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN   1-905326-24-6)
  2. Cotton, Fran (Ed.) (1984) The Book of Rugby Disasters & Bizarre Records. Compiled by Chris Rhys. London. Century Publishing. ISBN   0-7126-0911-3
  3. Jones, J.R. Encyclopedia of Rugby Union Football (Robert Hale, London, 1976 ISBN   0-7091-5394-5)
  4. Massie, Allan A Portrait of Scottish Rugby (Polygon, Edinburgh; ISBN   0-904919-84-6)