Langholm RFC

Langholm RFC

Full name	Langholm Rugby Football Club
Union	Scottish Rugby Union
Emblem(s)	Emblem Incorporates Scottish Thistle, rugby ball and posts, 1871 the year the club was founded and part of the towns arms
Founded	1871
Ground(s)	Milntown
League(s)	East Division 2 and Border League
2019–20	East Division 2
Team kit
Official website
www.pitchero.com/clubs/langholm/

Langholm Rugby Football Club are a rugby union team founded in 1871. They play their home games at Milntown, Langholm, Dumfries and Galloway.

The team currently play in the East Regional League Division One ^[1]

Langholm Sevens

The Langholm Sevens tournament is hosted by the club. It held around the end of April each year and is part of the Borders Sevens Circuit. The tournament first started in 1908. ^[2]

Notable former players

• Tom Scott, Scotland and president of the Scottish Football Union from 1918 to 1920 ^[3]
• Billy Steele, 23 caps for Scotland, ^[4] 1969.British and Irish Lions 1974 South Africa
• Ernie Michie, Scotland, British and Irish Lions, Barbarian F.C. ^[5]
• Christy Elliot, 1958
• Donald Scott, 1950
• Tommy Elliot, 1968
• Chuck Muir, 1997 Scottish Football Union International Referee
• Ally Ratcliffe (née Little), 2000 & Scottish Football Union Hall of Fame Inductee 2021
• Jilly McCord, 2004
• Lisa Thomson, 2017

Honours

• Scottish Unofficial Championship
  • Champions (1): 1958-59
• Border League
  • Champions (1): 1958-59
• Langholm Sevens
  • Champions (1): 1959
• Kelso Sevens
  • Champions (1): 1953
• Hawick Sevens
  • Champions (1): 1899
• Gala Sevens
  • Champions (2): 1951, 1955
• Earlston Sevens
  • Champions (1): 1954
• Selkirk Sevens
  • Champions (2): 1949, 1958
• Ardrossan Sevens ^[6]
  • Champions (2): 1963, 1968

See also

• Langholm
• Border League
• Borders Sevens Circuit

References

1. "Langholm look tolife in lower league". The Southern Reporter . 9 July 2015. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
2. "Langholm 7s | Kings of the 7s".
3. Godwin, p363
4. Bath, p161
5. McLaren, p81
6. "Ardrossan Sevens". 11 June 2019.

Sources

• Bath, Richard (ed.) The Complete Book of Rugby (Seven Oaks Ltd, 1997 ISBN   1-86200-013-1)
• Godwin, Terry Complete Who's Who of International Rugby (Cassell, 1987, ISBN   0-7137-1838-2)
• McLaren, Bill Talking of Rugby (1991, Stanley Paul, London ISBN   0-09-173875-X)
• Massie, Allan A Portrait of Scottish Rugby (Polygon, Edinburgh; ISBN   0-904919-84-6)