W.C.W. Murdoch

William Copeland Wood Murdoch (3 October 1914, Old Kilpatrick - October 1987, Helensburgh[1]) was a Scottish international rugby union player who played at full-back.

William Murdoch

Birth name	William Copeland Wood Murdoch
Date of birth	c. 1911
Place of birth	Old Kilpatrick, Scotland
Date of death	c. January 1970
Place of death	Helensburgh, Scotland
Occupation(s)	Rugby union referee
Rugby union career
Position(s) Full Back Amateur team(s) Years Team Apps (Points) - Hillhead HSFP () Provincial / State sides Years Team Apps (Points) Glasgow District () National team(s) Years Team Apps (Points) 1935-48 Scotland 9 Refereeing career Years Competition Apps 1951-52 1953 Five Natrions Championship Scottish Inter-District Championship 2 1

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

Murdoch played for Hillhead HSFP

Provincial career

Murdoch played for Glasgow District

International career

He was capped a total of nine times, but there was an extremely long hiatus in his career due to the Second World War - he gained his first cap in 1935, and his last in 1948.[1][2] He gained four caps in the 1947-48 season.[2] This gives him one of the longest international careers on record.[3] Only he and W.B. Young were capped on either side of the War.

Referee career

In later life, he became a referee.[1]

References

1. Player profile on scrum.com. Retrieved 15 February 2010
2. Cotton, p75
3. Jones, pp56,57

Sources

1. Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
2. Cotton, Fran (Ed.) (1984) The Book of Rugby Disasters & Bizarre Records. Compiled by Chris Rhys. London. Century Publishing. ISBN 0-7126-0911-3
3. Jones, J.R. Encyclopedia of Rugby Union Football (Robert Hale, London, 1976 ISBN 0-7091-5394-5)
4. Massie, Allan A Portrait of Scottish Rugby (Polygon, Edinburgh; ISBN 0-904919-84-6)