Aberdeen GSFP RFC
Clash Royale CLAN TAG#URR8PPP
Full name | Aberdeen Grammar Rugby Football Club | ||
---|---|---|---|
Union | Scottish Rugby Union | ||
Founded | 1893 | ||
Location | Aberdeen, Scotland | ||
Ground(s) | Rubislaw Playing Fields (Capacity: 5,000 (150 in stand)) | ||
Chairman | Gordon Thomson | ||
Coach(es) | Ali O'Connor | ||
Captain(s) | Doug Russell | ||
League(s) | Scottish National League Division One | ||
2017–18 | Scottish National League Division One, 7th of 12 | ||
| |||
Official website | |||
www.aberdeenrugby.org.uk |
Aberdeen Grammar School FP RFC, also known as Aberdeen Grammar, are an amateur rugby union club based in Aberdeen, Scotland. They currently compete in Scottish National League Division One. The club plays its home games at Rubislaw in the city's west end.
Honours
Scottish League Championship, third-tier- Champions (1): 1983-84
Notable players
Scotland
- John Robert Stephen Innes, 1939 and 1946.[1]
- William Dallas "Dally" Allardice, 1947 to 1949 (8 caps)
E.T.S Michie, the first University of Aberdeen Lions player in the 1955 British Lions tour to South Africa and also in Barbarian FC.[2][3]
Robbie Russell (27 caps)
Andrew Wilson (2 caps)- Johnnie Beattie
Moray Low, 2008 to 2013
A number of former players have also gone on to play professional rugby including:
Stuart Corsar - Glasgow Warriors, Rotherham Titans, Doncaster Knights- Sean Crombie - Edinburgh Rugby
Dave Millard - Glasgow Warriors
Matt Taylor - Edinburgh Rugby, Border Reivers. Current coach for Glasgow Warriors and Scotland
Ben Prescott - Glasgow Warriors, Rotherham Titans, Nottingham, Leinster, Northampton Saints, Cornish Pirates
References
- Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 .mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em
ISBN 1-905326-24-6) - Godwin, Terry Complete Who's Who of International Rugby (Cassell, 1987,
ISBN 0-7137-1838-2) - Massie, Allan A Portrait of Scottish Rugby (Polygon, Edinburgh;
ISBN 0-904919-84-6)
^ Godwin, p206
^ Jones, p11
^ Godwin, p282
This Scottish rugby union team article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |