Peter Tait (rugby union)

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Peter Tait
Birth namePeter Webster Tait
Date of birth(1906-10-19)19 October 1906
Place of birthEdinburgh, Scotland
Date of death22 April 1980(1980-04-22) (aged 73)
Place of deathEdinburgh, Scotland
Rugby union career
Position(s) Hooker
Amateur team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
Royal HSFP ()
Provincial / State sides
Years Team Apps (Points)
1937
1938
Edinburgh District
()
National team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
1935 Scotland 1 (0)

Peter Tait (19 October 1906 – 22 April 1980) was a Scotland international rugby union player.[1]

Rugby Union career[]

Amateur career[]

Tait played for Royal HSFP.[2]

Provincial career[]

Tait was capped for Edinburgh District.[3]

He was supposed to play for the in the first trial match of season 1937-38. The match due on 18 December 1937 was called off due to frost despite the contingency of straw being placed on The Greenyards pitch at Melrose. He did however turn out for the side for the second and final trial match of that season, on 15 January 1938.[4]

International career[]

Tait played in only one match for Scotland, in 1935 against England at Murrayfield.[5]


References[]

  1. ^ "Peter Webster Tait". ESPN scrum.
  2. ^ Scotland. The Essential History of Rugby Union. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths. Headline Publishing. 2003.
  3. ^ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
  4. ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000577/19380117/026/0004 – via British Newspaper Archive. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ^ "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Peter Tait - Test matches". ESPN scrum.
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