Graham Ross (rugby union)

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Graham Ross
Birth nameGraham Tullis Ross
Date of birth(1928-07-05)5 July 1928
Place of birth Edinburgh, Scotland
Date of death13 February 2009(2009-02-13) (aged 80)
Place of death Edinburgh, Scotland
School George Watsons College
Rugby union career
Position(s) Fly-half
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
Watsonians ()
– Edinburgh Academicals ()
– Wasps ()
Provincial / State sides
YearsTeamApps(Points)
Edinburgh District ()
- Co-Optimists ()
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1954 Scotland 4 (0)

Graham Ross (5 July 1928 – 13 February 2009) was a Scotland international rugby union footballer, who played as a fly-half. [1]

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Rugby union career

Amateur career

Ross played for Watsonians. [2]

He also played for Edinburgh Academicals and Wasps. [3]

Provincial career

Ross played for Edinburgh District. He played in Scottish Inter-District Championship. He played in the 1954–55 season. [4]

He played for the Co-Optimists. [5]

International career

He was capped for Scotland four times in 1954. [6]

Business career

Ross trained in the Scottish Hotel School and then worked in the Savoy Hotel in London and then in Switzerland. [7]

He joined McVities Guest in 1955 as a Catering Director. [7]

This was taken over by Rank Hovis MacDougall in 1963. Ross worked for them before setting up his own company Ross's Restaurants. [7]

He sold the company to United Biscuits in 1975. [7]

He became the Managing Director of Crawford Catering Company. [7]

In 1981 he worked as an Executive Director of Scottish Business in the Community. Ross set up 47 Local Enterprise trusts around Scotland creating jobs. [7]

He received an OBE in 1990. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Graham Tullis Ross".
  2. ↑ The Essential History of Rugby Union: Scotland. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths.
  3. ↑ "Graham Ross And Oliver Turnbull - Scottish Rugby Union". Archived from the original on 11 February 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
  4. ↑ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search".
  5. 1 2 "Graham Ross".
  6. ↑ "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Graham Ross - Test matches".
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "A natural ability at rugby capped Graham Ross's career".


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