Fletcher Buchanan

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Fletcher Buchanan
Birth nameFletcher Gordon Buchanan
Date of birth(1889-12-23)23 December 1889
Place of birth Glasgow, Scotland
Date of death24 May 1960(1960-05-24) (aged 70)
Place of death Dollar, Clackmannanshire, Scotland
University Oxford University
Rugby union career
Position(s) Centre
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
Kelvinside Academicals ()
– Oxford University ()
– Kelvinside Academicals ()
Provincial / State sides
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1911 Whites Trial ()
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1910-11 Scotland 3 (0)

Fletcher Buchanan (23 December 1889 – 24 May 1960) was a Scotland international rugby union player. He played as a Centre. [1]

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Rugby Union career

Amateur career

Buchanan played for Kelvinside Academicals. [2]

On studying at Oxford University he then played for Oxford University. [3]

After studying at Oxford, he returned to Glasgow and played for Kelvinside Academicals once more. He captained the side.

The Scottish Referee, 20 November 1911, said this of Buchanan: [4]

one of the best three-quarters who played for Oxford last season has improved since he returned to the land of his birth, but it is a fact, and to-day the Kelvinside captain is one of the finest players behind the scrummage we have in Scotland. His displays in recent matches have shattered the opinion that he was only a fair weather sailor. He is more than that; he is a most excellent defensive player, besides being an aggressive artist of the premier type - Buchanan is a great exponent of the carrying game, and we hope this season to find him adorned with that emblem which only falls to the lot of a selected few.

Provincial career

He played for the Whites Trial side against the Blues Trial side on 21 January 1911, while still with Oxford University. [5]

International career

He played for Scotland three times, selected in 1910 and 1911. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "Fletcher Gordon Buchanan".
  2. ↑ Scotland. The Essential History of Rugby Union. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths. Headline Publishing. 2003.
  3. ↑ Scotland. The Essential History of Rugby Union. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths. Headline Publishing. 2003.
  4. ↑ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001876/19111120/010/0001.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ↑ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000576/19110123/110/0009.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ↑ "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Fletcher Buchanan - Test matches".