Aberdeen GSFP RFC

Aberdeen Grammar Rugby

Full name	Aberdeen Grammar Rugby Football Club
Union	Scottish Rugby Union
Founded	1893
Location	Aberdeen, Scotland
Ground(s)	Rubislaw Playing Fields (Capacity: 5,000 (150 in stand))
Chairman	Gordon Thomson
Coach(es)	Stuart Corsar
Captain(s)	Doug Russell
League(s)	Scottish National League Division 1
1st kit 2nd kit
Official website
www.aberdeenrugby.org.uk

Aberdeen Grammar School FP RFC, also known as Aberdeen Grammar, are an amateur rugby union club based in Aberdeen, Scotland. They currently play in the Scottish National League Division 1. The club plays its home games at Rubislaw in the city's west end.

Notable players

Scotland

• John Robert Stephen Innes, 1939 and 1946.^[1]
• William Dallas "Dally" Allardice, 1947 to 1949 (8 caps)
• E.T.S Michie, the first University of Aberdeen Lions player in the 1955 British Lions tour to South Africa and also in Barbarian FC.^[2][3]
• Robbie Russell (27 caps)
• Andrew Wilson (2 caps)
• Johnnie Beattie
• Moray Low, 2008 to 2013

A number of former players have also gone on to play professional rugby including:

• Stuart Corsar - Glasgow Warriors, Rotherham Titans, Doncaster Knights
• Sean Crombie - Edinburgh Rugby
• David Millard - Glasgow Warriors
• Matt Taylor - Edinburgh Rugby, Border Reivers. Current coach for Glasgow Warriors and Scotland
• Ben Prescott - Glasgow Warriors, Rotherham Titans, Nottingham, Leinster, Northampton Saints, Cornish Pirates

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)

1. ↑ Godwin, p206
2. ↑ Jones, p11
3. ↑ Godwin, p282