Harry Lind

Harry Lind

Birth name	Harry Lind
Date of birth	(1906-03-27)27 March 1906
Place of birth	Dunfermline, Scotland
Date of death	18 December 1986(1986-12-18) (aged 80)
Place of death	Dunfermline, Scotland
Rugby union career
Position(s) Fly-half / Centre Amateur team(s) Years Team Apps (Points) Dunfermline () Provincial / State sides Years Team Apps (Points) - Midlands District () - Scotland Probables () International career Years Team Apps (Points) 1928–1936 Scotland 16 (7) Refereeing career Years Competition Apps 1944 Scottish Districts

Harry Lind (27 March 1906 – 18 December 1986, Dunfermline ^[1] ) was a Scotland international rugby union player.

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

His club was Dunfermline RFC. ^{[2] [3]}

Provincial career

Lind represented the Midlands District. ^[4]

He played for Scotland Probables on 19 December 1931. ^[5]

International career

He was capped 16 times for Scotland between 1928 and 1936 at centre. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

In Scotland's Triple Crown win in 1933, when they beat Ireland 8-6 by two drop-goals (four points each in those days) to two tries (three points in those days), Lind contributed the winning goal:

"Ireland were pressing on the Scottish line and leading by 6-4 when suddenly the Scottish forwards ignited a foot-rush from their own line to the Irish '25'. Davy was one who had to go in to try and stop the rush and when he got up, there was Harry Lind of Dunfermline slotting the winning drop-goal. 'It was some foot-rush', I remember that great Irishman saying, 'Forwards really could control the dribble in those days." ^[6]

Referee career

After his playing career, Lind became a rugby union referee. ^[7]

References

1. Player profile on scrum.com. Retrieved 15 February 2010
2. McLaren, Bill Talking of Rugby (1991, Stanley Paul, London ISBN   0-09-173875-X)
3. Encyclopedia of Rugby Union Football, p34
4. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000568/19261115/134/0007.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
5. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19311221&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
6. McLaren, p83
7. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000449/19510829/082/0005.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

Sources

1. Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN   1-905326-24-6)
2. Cotton, Fran (Ed.) (1984) The Book of Rugby Disasters & Bizarre Records. Compiled by Chris Rhys. London. Century Publishing. ISBN   0-7126-0911-3
3. Godwin, Terry Complete Who's Who of International Rugby (Cassell, 1987, ISBN   0-7137-1838-2)
4. Jones, J.R. Encyclopedia of Rugby Union Football (Robert Hale, London, 1976 ISBN   0-7091-5394-5)
5. Massie, Allan A Portrait of Scottish Rugby (Polygon, Edinburgh; ISBN   0-904919-84-6)