John MacDonald (rugby union, born 1890)

Last updated

John MacDonald
Birth nameJohn MacKinnon MacDonald
Date of birth(1890-12-07)7 December 1890
Date of death1 June 1980(1980-06-01) (aged 89)
Place of death Portree, Scotland
Rugby union career
Position(s) Wing
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
Edinburgh Wanderers ()
Provincial / State sides
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1910 Edinburgh District ()
1911 Blues Trial ()
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1911 Scotland 1 (0)

John MacDonald (7 December 1890 – 1 June 1980) was a Scotland international rugby union player. [1]

Contents

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

He played club rugby for Edinburgh Wanderers. [2]

Provincial career

He played for Edinburgh District against Glasgow District in the 1910 inter-city match. Edinburgh won the match 26–5, with MacDonald scoring a try. [3]

He played for the Blues Trial side against the Whites Trial side on 21 January 1911, while still with Edinburgh Wanderers. He scored 3 tries for the Blues, but it could not prevent a 26–19 win for the Whites. [4]

International career

He was capped once for the Scotland international rugby union team in 1911. [5]

References

  1. ↑ "John MacKinnon Macdonald". ESPN scrum.
  2. ↑ The Essential History of Rugby Union: Scotland. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths.
  3. ↑ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
  4. ↑ "Register" . Retrieved 17 March 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ↑ "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - John Macdonald - Test matches". ESPN scrum.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.