W.C.W. Murdoch
For other uses, see William Murdoch (disambiguation).
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.
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.
In later life, he became a referee.[1]
References
- Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
- Cotton, Fran (Ed.) (1984) The Book of Rugby Disasters & Bizarre Records. Compiled by Chris Rhys. London. Century Publishing. ISBN 0-7126-0911-3
- Jones, J.R. Encyclopedia of Rugby Union Football (Robert Hale, London, 1976 ISBN 0-7091-5394-5)
- Massie, Allan A Portrait of Scottish Rugby (Polygon, Edinburgh; ISBN 0-904919-84-6)
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Player profile on scrum.com. Retrieved 15 February 2010
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Cotton, p75
- ↑ Jones, pp56,57