Derrick Grant

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Derrick Grant
Date of birth(1938-04-19)19 April 1938
Place of birth Hawick, Scottish Borders, Scotland
Date of death10 November 2024(2024-11-10) (aged 86)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Flanker
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
Hawick RFC ()
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1965–1968 Scotland 14 (3)

Derrick Grant (19 April 1938 – 10 November 2024) was a Scotland international rugby union player and coach.

Biography

Grant was born in Hawick, Scottish Borders on 19 April 1938. [1] He was capped fourteen times as a flanker for Scotland between 1965 and 1968. He scored one try for Scotland. [2] He was selected for the 1966 British Lions tour to Australia and New Zealand but did not play in any of the internationals.

Grant also played club rugby for Hawick RFC. He was Hawick's most successful ever coach in the 1970s and 1980s coaching Hawick to five division 1 championships in a row. He also coached the Scotland team during the 1980s.

His brother was another Scotland cap, Oliver Grant. Derrick Grant died on 10 November 2024, at the age of 86. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Griffiths, John (1987). The Phoenix Book of International Rugby Records. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. pp. 12:15. ISBN   0-460-07003-7.
  2. ↑ Griffiths, page 2:30-2:31
  3. ↑ "Obituary: Derrick Grant". Scottish Rugby. 12 November 2024. Retrieved 12 November 2024.


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