Norm Suddon
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| Birth name | Norman Suddon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 28 June 1943 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Cavers, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 90 kg (14 st 2 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Norm Suddon (born 28 June 1943) is a former Scotland international rugby union player. He played as a Prop.[1]
Rugby Union career[]
Amateur career[]
Suddon played for Hawick.[2] He was deemed a protege of Hugh McLeod, a long-time Hawick prop.[3]
Provincial career[]
He played for a Scottish Border XV in their October 1962 matches against Durham County and Royal Air Force Rugby Union; both warm-up matches to help selection to the South district side.[4][5]
He played for South of Scotland District.[6]
He played for the side in their match against the side on 9 February 1963.[7] After impressing he then turned out for the side against the side in their final match that season on 2 March 1963.[7]
Suddon played for in their match against on 31 December 1966. However after a poor display by the Probables front row, Suddon was deemed a 'scapegoat' by the Aberdeen Press and Journal when he was left out of the Scotland international team to meet France in January 1967.[8]
He was named for in their match against on 9 January 1971.[9] However he had to withdraw due to a knee injury that he sustained in his club match prior to this. Suddon had to have surgery on his cartillage.[10]
International career[]
He was capped 13 times for Scotland.[11]
He also played in a combined Scotland-Ireland team that played against England-Wales on 14 October 1972 to mark the SRU centenary.[12]
Business career[]
Suddon was a hosiery worker in Hawick.[3]
References[]
- ^ "Norman Suddon". ESPN scrum.
- ^ Scotland. The Essential History of Rugby Union. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths. Headline Publishing. 2003.
- ^ a b https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000445/19650202/165/0010 – via British Newspaper Archive. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ^ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
- ^ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
- ^ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
- ^ a b "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
- ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000578/19670106/198/0011 – via British Newspaper Archive. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000445/19701230/137/0011 – via British Newspaper Archive. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000445/19710106/279/0014 – via British Newspaper Archive. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ^ "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Norm Suddon - Test matches". ESPN scrum.
- ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000578/19721014/543/0016 – via British Newspaper Archive. Missing or empty
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