Darsie Anderson

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Darsien Anderson
Birth nameDarsie Gordon Anderson
Date of birth(1868-02-22)22 February 1868
Place of birth Abbey Wood, England
Date of death26 December 1937(1937-12-26) (aged 69)
Place of death Guildford, England
Rugby union career
Position(s) Half back
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
London Scottish ()
– Barbarians ()
Provincial / State sides
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1889 East of Scotland District ()
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1889-92 Scotland 8 (2)

Darsie Gordon Anderson (22 February 1868 – 26 December 1937) was a Scotland international rugby union player. [1] He played club rugby for London Scottish.

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Rugby Union career

Amateur career

Anderson played for two major club teams during his career, London Scottish and the Barbarians.

Provincial career

He played for the East of Scotland District in their match against West of Scotland District in their match of 28 January 1889. Despite having a good game, he was not picked for the subsequent international match for Scotland.

The Forfar Herald of 1 February 1889 was scathing of Anderson's omission from the Scotland squad against Wales: [2]

The feature of the game was the magnificent play of H. J. Stevenson of the Edinburgh Academicals at half, and D. G. Anderson of the London Scottish at quarter. It is the rule to chose the International Rugby team to play for Scotland against Wales after the above match, and this rule was again followed. The team chosen has however given rise to a great deal of dissatisfaction, and it is asserted that the representatives who came from the western clubs - being the majority of the selecting Committee - have run in their own men regardless of merit. Two instances, however, may be mentioned as being, in the writer's opinion. obvious cases of injustice. The first is that of Anderson of the London Scottish, who played so well for the East, and who really appeared to be almost as good as A. R. Don. Wauchope or Asher, and is unquestionably the best quarter back seen in Edinburgh since those two famous players retired.

International career

At international level he represented Scotland winning eight caps over four seasons.

Anderson was already playing for London Scottish when he was awarded his first international cap, in Scotland's closing encounter of the 1889 Home Nations Championship, away to Ireland. Anderson was partnered at half back with Charles Orr, with whom He would play all eight of his international appearances. Scotland won the match against the Irish, by a single drop goal, and Anderson and Orr became a regular partnership from that point. Both men lined up for all three games of the 1890 Championship, which saw Scotland lose the title in their final match of the series to England. During the 1890 tournament, Anderson scored his only international points, with a try in the win over Wales.

The next season, Anderson was approached by William Percy Carpmael to join his newly formed invitational touring team, the Barbarians. Anderson accepted, becoming one of the team's founding members. [3] The 1891 Home Nations Championship saw Scotland win all three games of the competition to take the Triple Crown. Anderson played in two of the matches, the country's opening victory over Wales, and the final match away to England. For the Ireland encounter, Anderson was replaced by William Wotherspoon; but on his return for the England game, along with Gregor MacGregor, Anderson was seen as the outstanding player of the match. [4]

Anderson played in one final Championship in 1892, with a win over Wales, but his final international was a home loss to England.

Administrative career

He founded the Lewes rugby club. They played their first match against Hastings & Bexhill on 27 December 1930. [5]

Family

Anderson was born in Abbey Wood, Greenwich in 1868 to John Anderson and May Margaret Gordon, but by the age of 13 was boarding at a private school in the Chanonry in Aberdeen. [6] On 25 October 1899, he married Constance Mary Louise Neild, and they had four children, all girls. By 1919, Anderson was listed at Campden Hill in London, and was a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London. [7] For a number of years he was in Siam. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ Darsie Anderson rugby profile Scrum.com
  2. ↑ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002723/18890201/102/0008 [ dead link ]
  3. ↑ Starmer-Smith, Nigel (1977). The Barbarians. Macdonald & Jane's Publishers. p. 28. ISBN   0-86007-552-4.
  4. ↑ Griffiths, John (1982). The Book of English International Rugby 1872-1982. London: Willow Books. p. 57. ISBN   978-0-00-218006-1.
  5. ↑ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001530/19301227/231/0009 [ dead link ]
  6. ↑ "1881 Census data". Archived from the original on 9 March 2012. Retrieved 10 October 2009.
  7. ↑ Zooligical Society of London archive.org
  8. ↑ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002172/18980406/044/0003 [ dead link ]
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