Pat Smeaton

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Pat Smeaton
Birth namePatrick Walker Smeaton
Date of birth(1857-11-12)12 November 1857
Place of birth Kincardine, Fife, Scotland
Date of death11 August 1928(1928-08-11) (aged 70)
Place of death Edinburgh, Scotland
Rugby union career
Position(s) Half back
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
- Edinburgh Academicals ()
Provincial / State sides
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1880
1881		 Edinburgh District
East of Scotland Dsitrict 		()
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1881-83 Scotland 3 (0)

Pat Smeaton (12 November 1857 - 11 August 1928) was a Scotland international rugby union player. [1]

Contents

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

Smeaton played for Edinburgh Academicals. [2] He was club captain for the 1881-82 season. [3]

Although favouring playing in the back line, Smeaton was noted for his versality. In noting a match between the Academicals and Royal HSFP it was observed: [4]

P. W. Smeaton, who was a sort of handy man, sometimes in, sometimes out of the forward division, stole away from a throw-out and 'galloped' over the line for the Edinburgh Academical winning score in the 'School' match. Smeaton had a style of progression peculiarly his own. It was more a gallop than a run.

Provincial career

He played for Edinburgh District in their inter-city match against Glasgow District on 4 December 1880. He started the match playing at Three quarters. [5]

Smeaton played for East of Scotland Dsitrict in their match against West of Scotland District on 5 February 1881. [6]

International career

Smeaton played for Scotland 3 times, from 1881 to 1883. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "Patrick Walker Smeaton". ESPN scrum.
  2. ↑ The Essential History of Rugby Union: Scotland. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths. Headline Publishing. 2003.
  3. ↑ "Club Captains". www.edinburghaccies.com.
  4. ↑ "Rugby Football History". www.rugbyfootballhistory.com.
  5. ↑ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
  6. ↑ "Register" – via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. ↑ "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Pat Smeaton - Test matches". ESPN scrum.


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