Sandy Gunn (rugby union)

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Sandy Gunn
Birth nameAlexander William Gunn
Date of birth(1890-11-16)16 November 1890
Place of birth Pontypool, Wales
Date of death1 April 1980(1980-04-01) (aged 89)
Place of death Stowlangtoft, England
Rugby union career
Position(s) Fly half
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
Royal HSFP ()
Provincial / State sides
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1911-12 Edinburgh District ()
1912 Whites Trial ()
1912
1912		 Combined Scottish Districts
Blues Trial 		()
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1912-13 Scotland 5 (3)

Sandy Gunn (16 November 1890 – 1 April 1980) was a Scotland international rugby union player. [1] His regular playing position was fly half.

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Rugby Union career

Amateur career

Gunn played for Royal HSFP. [2]

On 7 April 1911 The Scottish Referee newspaper while noting that Hawick would probably be the favourites instead tipped the Royal HSFP side to win the Melrose Sevens in 1911 stating that if they pick their best side of G. A. McLaren, Sandy Gunn, J. Hume, A. Elder, A. C. Brown, W. A. Kennedy, and W. J. Sommerville, that they would take a lot of beating. [3] However Hawick did win the Melrose Sevens that year.

Gunn scored a respectable 11 tries for Royal in the 1910-11 season. [3]

Provincial career

Gunn played for Edinburgh District against Glasgow District in the inter-city match of 2 December 1911 and in the inter-city match of 7 December 1912. [4]

Gunn played for Whites Trial against Blues Trial on 6 January 1912. [5]

The first outing of the Combined Scottish Districts was originally deemed a 'Glasgow and Districts' line-up, despite players from all around Scotland actually outnumbering those from Glasgow District. Gunn played for the combined district side on 27 November 1912 against South Africa. [6]

Gunn played for Blues Trial against Whites Trial on 21 December 1912. [7]

International career

Gunn played in 5 tests for Scotland. [8]

Gunn was picked instead at Centre for the match against South Africa. [9]

Administrative career

Gunn was named as a committee member of Royal HSFP in 1913. [10]

Family

Gunn's parents were James Gunn (1851-1929) and Christina Bell Turner (1852-1914). They had 2 daughters: Christina Sinclair Gunn (1884-1969) and Catherine Jane Turner Gunn (1888-1959) and 2 sons: James Turner Gunn (1881-1968) and Sandy noted here.

James Gunn was from Caithness and Christina Bell Turner was from Argyll, but they moved to Wales in their thirties, for a few years before returning to Scotland. While James Turner Gunn and Christina Sinclair Gunn were both born in Scotland, Catherine Jane Turner Gunn and Sandy were born in Pontypool in Wales.

Sandy married Marjorie Ruth Clare Anderson (1896-1961) in St. Silas Episcopal Church in Glasgow on 9 January 1923.

They had a son Alasdair Turner Gray Gunn (1926-2014).

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References

  1. ↑ "Alexander William Gunn". ESPN scrum.
  2. ↑ Scotland. The Essential History of Rugby Union. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths. Headline Publishing. 2003.
  3. 1 2 "Register" . Retrieved 16 March 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ↑ "Register" . Retrieved 16 March 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ↑ "Register" . Retrieved 16 March 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ↑ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search".
  7. ↑ "Register" . Retrieved 16 March 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
  8. ↑ "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Sandy Gunn - Test matches". ESPN scrum.
  9. ↑ "Register" . Retrieved 16 March 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
  10. ↑ "Register" . Retrieved 16 March 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.


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