| Birth name | Donald Macpherson Grant | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 30 December 1892 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Burma | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 8 December 1962 (aged 69) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | San Francisco, United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Donald Grant (30 December 1892 – 8 December 1962) is a former Scotland international rugby union player. Grant played as a Wing.[1]
Rugby Union career
Amateur career
Grant played for London Scottish.[2]
Provincial career
Grant played for the English county team East Midlands.[3]
He played for the Whites Trial side against the Blues Trial side on 21 January 1911, while still with London Scottish, scoring a try in the match in a 26-19 win for the Whites.[4]
International career
Grant played 2 matches for Scotland, both in the Five Nations tournament.[5]
He remains the youngest player to play on the Wing for Scotland. His first start was at the age of 18 years and 36 days.[6]
His debut was against Wales on 4 February 1911 at Inverleith. Wales won the match 32 - 10.[7] The Glasgow Herald noted that Grant as 'the schoolboy member of the team, took a long time to find his feet, and did his best work in Scotland's last despairing rally.'[2]
His final match was against Ireland on 25 February 1911 at Inverleith. Ireland won the match 16 - 10.[8] Grant had a kick at goal in the first half but it went right of the post; and his similar conversion kick in the second half also missed. Nevertheless he combined with Carl Ogilivy to good effect throughout the match.[9]
References
- ↑ "Donald Macpherson Grant". ESPN scrum.
- 1 2 "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
- ↑ The Essential History of Rugby Union: Scotland. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths.
- ↑ "Register". Retrieved 17 March 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Donald Grant - Test matches". ESPN scrum.
- ↑ "Rugby Teams, Scores, Stats, News, Fixtures, Results, Tables - ESPN".
- ↑ "Scotland v Wales". ESPN scrum.
- ↑ "Scotland v Ireland". ESPN scrum.
- ↑ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.