Iain Laughland

Not to be confused with Ian McLauchlan.

Ian Hugh Page Laughland (born 29 October 1935 in Bombay[1]) was a Scottish rugby player, who played for Scotland and London Scottish FC and, before that, Merchiston Castle School. He was a fly half, and took over from Gordon Waddell.[2] He was capped 31 times between 1959-1967.[1]

McLaren says of a game against South Africa in 1960

The Scottish try was a typical opportunist effort by Scotland's captain Arthur Smith. Iain Laughland (London Scottish) operating at stand-off, tried a drop-goal after John Douglas (Stewarts College F.P.), Norman Bruce (London Scottish) and Hugh McLeod (Hawick) had rolled out of the back of a line-out. The ball sliced off Laughland's foot, but Arthur Smith, purring as always like a high powered Rolls Royce, screamed up the wing like a shell and got the touch before the ball rolled out of play... The match was marked by some magnificent Scottish tackling in which the mid-field of Laughland, Eddie McKeating (Heriots F.P.), and George Stevenson (Hawick) set a superb example, that deprived a South African threequarter line comprising Janie Engelbrecht, Ian Kirkpatrick, John Gainsford and Hennie van Zyl of a try; some feat considering that those four contributed 38 tries during the tour.[3]

References

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 player profile on scrum.com. Retrieved 16 February 2010
  2. ↑ Massie, p158
  3. ↑ McLaren, p141


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