Donald Grant (rugby union)

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Donald Grant
Birth nameDonald Macpherson Grant
Date of birth(1892-12-30)30 December 1892
Place of birth Burma
Date of death8 December 1962(1962-12-08) (aged 69)
Place of death San Francisco, United States
Rugby union career
Position(s) Wing
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
London Scottish ()
Provincial / State sides
YearsTeamApps(Points)
East Midlands ()
1911 Whites Trial ()
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1911 Scotland 2 (0)

Donald Grant (30 December 1892 – 8 December 1962) was an international rugby union player representing Scotland. Grant played as a Wing. [1]

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Rugby Union career

Amateur career

Grant played for London Scottish. [2]

Provincial career

Grant played for the English county team East Midlands. [3]

He played for the Whites Trial side against the Blues Trial side on 21 January 1911, while still with London Scottish, scoring a try in the match in a 26-19 win for the Whites. [4]

International career

Grant played 2 matches for Scotland, both in the Five Nations tournament. [5]

He remains the youngest player to play on the Wing for Scotland. His first start was at the age of 18 years and 36 days. [6]

His debut was against Wales on 4 February 1911 at Inverleith. Wales won the match 32 - 10. [7] The Glasgow Herald noted that Grant as 'the schoolboy member of the team, took a long time to find his feet, and did his best work in Scotland's last despairing rally.' [2]

His final match was against Ireland on 25 February 1911 at Inverleith. Ireland won the match 16 - 10. [8] Grant had a kick at goal in the first half but it went right of the post; and his similar conversion kick in the second half also missed. Nevertheless he combined with Carl Ogilivy to good effect throughout the match. [9]

References

  1. ↑ "Donald Macpherson Grant". ESPN scrum.
  2. 1 2 "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
  3. ↑ The Essential History of Rugby Union: Scotland. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths.
  4. ↑ "Register" . Retrieved 17 March 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ↑ "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Donald Grant - Test matches". ESPN scrum.
  6. ↑ "Rugby Teams, Scores, Stats, News, Fixtures, Results, Tables - ESPN".
  7. ↑ "Scotland v Wales". ESPN scrum.
  8. ↑ "Scotland v Ireland". ESPN scrum.
  9. ↑ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
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