Dan Drysdale

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Daniel "Dan" Drysdale (18 May 1901 – 15 October 1987) was a Scottish international rugby union player, who played for Scotland and the Lions.^[1]^[2]

Born in Kippen, Stirlingshire^[2] Drysdale, went to George Heriots and also played for Heriot's FP,^[1] London Scottish F.C. and Barbarian F.C..^[2] He went to Edinburgh University and Oxford University, where he played for the teams Edinburgh University RFC and Oxford University RFC.^[2]

He was on the 1924 British Lions tour to South Africa.^[1]

He was a timber merchant, and was president of the Scottish Rugby Union between 1951-2.^[3]

References

Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
Godwin, Terry Complete Who's Who of International Rugby (Cassell, 1987, ISBN 0-7137-1838-2)
Massie, Allan A Portrait of Scottish Rugby (Polygon, Edinburgh; ISBN 0-904919-84-6)
Dan Drysdale's profile at Scrum.com

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Bath, p118
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Godwin, p127
↑ Godwin, p128

v t e British and Irish Lions – 1924 South Africa tour

Forwards	Blakiston (Blackheath) Bradley (Dolphin) Brand (North of Ireland FC) Clinch (Dublin University) Cove-Smith (Old Merchant Taylors) (capt) D.S. Davies (Hawick and Scotland) R.G. Henderson (Northern and Scotland) Hendrie (Heriots FP and Scotland) R.A. Howie (Kirkcaldy RFC and Scotland) Marsden-Jones (Cardiff and London Welsh) McPherson (Newport) McVicker (Collegians) Roche (UCC and Newport) Ross (Kilmarnock and Scotland) Voyce (Gloucester)

Backs	J.H. Bordass (Cambridge University) Cunningham (Lansdowne) H. Davies (Newport) Drysdale (Heriots FP and Scotland) W.F. Gaisford (St. Bart's Hospital) V. Griffiths (Newport) Holliday (Aspatria) Harris (Blackheath) Harding (Swansea) Kinnear (Heriots FP and Scotland)^[1] Maxwell (Birkenhead Park) Ian Smith (Oxford University and Scotland) Waddell (Glasgow Academicals and Scotland) Wallace (Percy Park) Whitley (Northern) Young (Blackheath)

Coach	Manager: Harry Packer

Persondata
Name	Drysdale, Dan
Alternative names
Short description	Scottish rugby union player
Date of birth	18 May 1901
Place of birth
Date of death	15 October 1987
Place of death

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