Alex Angus

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

Alex Angus

Birth name	Alexander William Angus
Date of birth	11 November 1889
Place of birth	Sydney, Australia
Date of death	25 March 1947 (aged 57)
Place of death	Edinburgh, Scotland
Rugby union career
Position(s) Centre Amateur team(s) Years Team Apps (Points) Watsonians () Provincial / State sides Years Team Apps (Points) 1910 1911 Edinburgh District Whites Trial 1 (4) National team(s) Years Team Apps (Points) 1909-20 Scotland 18 (9)

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

He played club rugby for Watsonians.[3]

Provincial career

He played for Edinburgh District against Glasgow District in the 1910 inter-city match. Edinburgh won the match 26–5, with Angus scoring a try.[4]

He played for the Whites Trial side against the Blues Trial side on 21 January 1911, while still with Watsonians. He scored a drop goal in a 26–19 win for the Whites.[5]

International career

He was capped eighteen for the Scotland rugby union team between 1909 and 1920.[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.[6] 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.[6] His next four caps came in 1920, and he scored against Ireland on 28 February 1920 – just over nine years since his previous try.[6] Scotland won that match 19–0.[6]

Cricket career

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

See also

• List of Scottish cricket and rugby union players
• Jock Wemyss and Charlie Usher, other players capped on both sides of the war.

References

1. "Alexander Angus: International profile". Scrum.com. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
2. "Alexander Angus". www.espncricinfo.com. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
3. Bath, p104
4. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SMdAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LaYMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1667%2C4186886
5. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000576/19110123/110/0009
6. Bath, p64

Sources

1. Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
2. Massie, Allan A Portrait of Scottish Rugby (Polygon, Edinburgh; ISBN 0-904919-84-6)