Peter Tait (rugby union)

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Peter Tait
Birth namePeter Webster Tait
Date of birth(1906-10-19)19 October 1906
Place of birth Edinburgh, Scotland
Date of death22 April 1980(1980-04-22) (aged 73)
Place of death Edinburgh, Scotland
Rugby union career
Position(s) Hooker
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
Royal HSFP ()
Provincial / State sides
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1937 Edinburgh District ()
1938 Scotland Probables ()
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1935 Scotland 1 (0)

Peter Tait (19 October 1906 – 22 April 1980) was a Scotland international rugby union player. [1]

Contents

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

Tait played for Royal HSFP. [2]

Provincial career

Tait was capped for Edinburgh District. [3]

He was supposed to play for the Scotland Probables in the first trial match of season 1937-38. The match due on 18 December 1937 was called off due to frost despite the contingency of straw being placed on The Greenyards pitch at Melrose. He did however turn out for the Scotland Probables side for the second and final trial match of that season, on 15 January 1938. [4]

International career

Tait played in only one match for Scotland, in 1935 against England at Murrayfield. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Peter Webster Tait". ESPN scrum.
  2. ↑ Scotland. The Essential History of Rugby Union. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths. Headline Publishing. 2003.
  3. ↑ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
  4. ↑ "Register" . Retrieved 16 March 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ↑ "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Peter Tait - Test matches". ESPN scrum.


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