Alex Angus

Alex Angus
Full name Alexander William Angus
Date of birth (1889-11-11)11 November 1889
Place of birth Sydney, Australia
Date of death 23 March 1947(1947-03-23) (aged 57)
Place of death Edinburgh, Scotland
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position Forward
Professional / senior clubs
Years Club / team Caps (points)
Watsonians RFC
National team(s)
Years Club / team Caps (points)
1909-1920 ScotlandScotland 18 (9)

Alexander "Alex" William Angus (11 November 1889 – 23 March 1947) was a Scottish international rugby union and cricket player.[1][2]

He was capped eighteen for the Scotland rugby union team between 1909 and 1920.[3] He played club rugby for Watsonians.[3]

Richard Bath mentions him as one of the three Scottish players "who've gone the longest without (between) scoring a try for Scotland" along with Alan Tait and Gary Armstrong.[4] This is partly because World War I occurred in the middle of his international career, a period in which all international rugby ceased. He was first capped in 1909, scoring two tries in fourteen matches before the Great War.[4] His next four caps came in 1920, and he scored against Ireland on 28 February 1920 - just over nine years since his previous try.[4] Scotland won that match 19-0.[4]

He also played for the Scotland national cricket team.[3]

See also

References

  1. "Alexander Angus: International profile". Scrum.com. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
  2. "Alexander Angus". www.espncricinfo.com. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 Bath, p104
  4. 1 2 3 4 Bath, p64

Bibliography


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, April 28, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.