1868 - 2002
Annual
Records
The RHSFP Rugby Football Club may be unique in Scottish annals in that it
has a record of all matches played during the lifetime of the Club along
with individual performances of all those players who were involved in each
individual year.
It
has been decided to limit the annual records in this website, each of which
consists of a team photograph and tabular information, to around a dozen
specific and memorable years. It is also intended to produce a
CD in due course which will contain records of all one hundred and thirty
four years.
Topic List
The following topics are the selected Annual Club records.
Click a topic to view it, and click back to top
(which can be found at the end of each topic) to return to the index of
topics.
1871-1872 - Angus Buchanan
1875-1976 - A G Petrie
1883-84 - Nat Watt
1895-96 - J.W.
Simpson
1912-13 - G.A.
McLaren
1933-34 W.D.
Emslie
1951-52 - A.W.
Harper
1962-63 - J.P.
Fisher
1963-64 - E.J.
Ireland
1976-77 - R.G. McCosh/ J.C. Stewart
1981-82 - R.M.
Ross
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Captain Angus Buchanan played in the
first International fixture at Raeburn Place, and scored the first try
in International rugby in that game against England which was won by
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A. Gordon Petrie captained the side
for four years from 1875-76, and this year and the next (P11 W7 D1 L3).
He played eight consecutive times against England - 1873-1880. |
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This year, Nat Watt's last after four
as captain, was one of the FP's most successful. The record of P15
W11 D3 L1 (the loss to West of Scotland) made them the 'Recognised
Champions of Scotland'. The Scotsman newspaper previewed the
season by noting that Watt's team would be short of six regulars from
the previous season, but that good football would be looked for at
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This was the second season that J.W.
Simpson had captained the Club. The season's result,
P20 W11 D5 L4 was excellent considering that the four defeats were all
very narrow. C.H. Adamson scored 10 tries out of a
total of 36 scored by all players. Mark Morrison was
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1912-13 was the second last in a run of
seven where the games won exceeded the games lost.
This was statistically the most successful, the record reading P21 W15
D0 L6, to enable 5th place in the unofficial championship.
R.S. Paterson scored 19 tries in the season, including 8 against
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1933-34 - W.D. Emslie
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W.D Emslie
Captained the Club for the second time this year when it shared the
unofficial Scottish Championship with Hillhead (to whom they lost 14-8).
The team won their opening sixteen fixtures, finishing the season with a
record of P26 W22 D0 L4. |
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The picture shown is
1952-53, but Alec Harper was in his second year as captain and most of
the personnel are the same. The year's result was P22 W18 D0 L4.
I.W. Nicoll scored 14 tries out of a total of 49, while Fraser Bowman
appeared for the first time and Tom McGlashan passed 100 games. |
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1962-63 - J.P. Fisher
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1962-63 was badly punctuated by
weather related cancellations, only one game out of twelve being played
early in 1963. Despite that the record of P22 W14 D0 L8 is
one of the best of this era. Jim Lacey scored 136
points, and the most frequent appearances were by Stuart Macmillan and
Arthur Orr with 20 apiece. |
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1963-64 - E.J. Ireland
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Normal service in terms of games was resumed with the
playing record showing P35 W25 D2 L8. Jim Blake topped the
try scorers with 11 while Eric Ireland himself topped the appearances
list by turning out for all 35 games.
Tom McGlashan bade farewell to the XV in his game against
Penarth (his 249th) in a career dating from 1942-43. |
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1976-77 - R.G. McCosh/ J.C.
Stewart
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1981-82 - R.M. Ross
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