Finlay Kennedy

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Finlay Kennedy
Birth nameFinlay Kennedy
Date of birth(1892-01-23)23 January 1892
Place of birth Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Date of death8 March 1925(1925-03-08) (aged 33)
Place of death Edinburgh, Scotland
Rugby union career
Position(s) Prop
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
Stewart's College FP ()
Provincial / State sides
YearsTeamApps(Points)
Edinburgh District ()
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1920-21 Scotland 5 (13)

Finlay Kennedy (23 January 1892 – 8 March 1925) was a Scotland international rugby union footballer. He played as a Prop. [1]

Contents

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

Kennedy played for Stewart's College FP. [2] He captained the side for season 1913–14. [3]

Provincial career

Kennedy played in the inter-City match between Glasgow District and Edinburgh District on 3 December 1910. Edinburgh ran out victors with a 26 - 5 scoreline. [4]

International career

Kennedy was capped for Scotland 5 times, all after the First World War. He scored 13 points for Scotland; and - unusually for a prop - all points came from kicks. [5]

On 5 November 1932, some years after Kennedy's death, the Edinburgh Evening News said this of Stewarts College F.P. and Finlay Kennedy:

Yet the real basis of the College advance must be ascribed the solid work performed, season after season, the forwards. D. Lunan, G. M. Beaton, W. L. Kerr, and A. D. Lambert were all on the fringe of representative class, while Kennedy, almost as soon as he left school, was playing in trial matches, and praised for his work in loose. early 1911, Kennedy was kicking penalty goals from the vicinity of midfield. and the climax of this skill in this respect came in 1920, when he placed two magnificent 50-yard penalties against Wales at Inverleith, thereby giving Scotland her first win since 1907 over the Principality. Kennedy was a splendid leader of forwards, and was the first Stewart's man play in international Rugby.

Military career

He was a Sergeant in the Lovat Scouts in the First World War. [6] [7] He was awarded the DCM. [8]

Outside of rugby union

Kennedy became a Stockbroker's Clerk, then a hotel manager running the Barnton Hotel in Cramond Bridge. He died at the hotel. He left £521 in his estate. His brother Angus was his next of kin. [9]

Initial reports stated that Kennedy was 'laid to rest in the family place of sepulture at Roy Bridge, Inverness-shire'. [6] However a bigger funeral was evidently called for. Kennedy was buried at the Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh. [8] Alfred Lawrie represented the SRU at the funeral; and it was well attended by a number of Edinburgh rugby union clubs. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ "Finlay Kennedy". ESPN scrum.
  2. ↑ The Essential History of Rugby Union: Scotland. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths.
  3. ↑ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001876/19130926/048/0003 – via British Newspaper Archive.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ↑ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
  5. ↑ "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Finlay Kennedy - Test matches". ESPN scrum.
  6. 1 2 https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002722/19250313/041/0003 – via British Newspaper Archive.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. ↑ https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/5119/images/41629_625537_9753-00175?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&queryId=4ffe4bcfb7c11b8c7502655780dfa99b&usePUB=true&_phsrc=LUz26&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&_ga=2.89029020.601223898.1607976163-2054155574.1605963823&pId=422712 [ user-generated source ]
  8. 1 2 "Finlay Kennedy (1892-1925) - Find A Grave..." www.findagrave.com.
  9. ↑ https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/60558/images/40884_b206823-00340?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&queryId=4ffe4bcfb7c11b8c7502655780dfa99b&usePUB=true&_phsrc=LUz26&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&_ga=2.266874889.601223898.1607976163-2054155574.1605963823&pId=383785 [ user-generated source ]
  10. ↑ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19250313/188/0005 – via British Newspaper Archive.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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