| Birth name | Fletcher Gordon Buchanan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 23 December 1889 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Glasgow, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 24 May 1960 (aged 70) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Dollar, Clackmannanshire, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University | Oxford University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fletcher Buchanan (23 December 1889 – 24 May 1960) was a Scotland international rugby union player. He played as a Centre.[1]
Rugby Union career
Amateur career
Buchanan played for Kelvinside Academicals.[2]
On studying at Oxford University he then played for Oxford University.[3]
After studying at Oxford, he returned to Glasgow and played for Kelvinside Academicals once more. He captained the side.
The Scottish Referee, 20 November 1911, said this of Buchanan:[4]
one of the best three-quarters who played for Oxford last season has improved since he returned to the land of his birth, but it is a fact, and to-day the Kelvinside captain is one of the finest players behind the scrummage we have in Scotland. His displays in recent matches have shattered the opinion that he was only a fair weather sailor. He is more than that; he is a most excellent defensive player, besides being an aggressive artist of the premier type - Buchanan is a great exponent of the carrying game, and we hope this season to find him adorned with that emblem which only falls to the lot of a selected few.
Provincial career
He played for the Whites Trial side against the Blues Trial side on 21 January 1911, while still with Oxford University.[5]
International career
He played for Scotland three times, selected in 1910 and 1911.[6]
References
- ↑ "Fletcher Gordon Buchanan".
- ↑ Scotland. The Essential History of Rugby Union. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths. Headline Publishing. 2003.
- ↑ Scotland. The Essential History of Rugby Union. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths. Headline Publishing. 2003.
- ↑ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001876/19111120/010/0001.
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