William Blackadder
Birth name | William Francis Blackadder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 23 January 1913 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 27 November 1997 | (aged 84)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Darlington, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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William Blackadder (2 April 1915 – 16 September 1990) was a Scotland international rugby union player. He played as a wing.[1]
Rugby Union career[]
Amateur career[]
In 1933 he was playing for the Scottish Wayfarers.[2]
Blackadder played for West of Scotland.[3]
In April 1938 he played for the representative side Co-Optimists.[4]
He then moved to play for Newcastle Northern.[5][6]
Provincial career[]
Blackadder started for the side for the second and final trial match of that season, on 15 January 1938. He switched to play for the in the second half.[7]
He played for in January 1939, then playing for Newcastle Northern.[5]
While he was playing for Newcastle Northern he represented Northumberland county.[8]
International career[]
Blackadder was capped by Scotland just the once, in 1938.[9][10]
References[]
- ^ "William Francis Blackadder". ESPN scrum.
- ^ "Dundee Courier; British Newspaper Archive" – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Scotland. The Essential History of Rugby Union. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths. Headline Publishing. 2003.
- ^ "Jedburgh Gazette; British Newspaper Archive" – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ a b https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000563/19390103/164/0008 – via British Newspaper Archive. Missing or empty
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(help) - ^ "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - William Blackadder - Test matches". ESPN scrum.
- ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000577/19380319/018/0004 – via British Newspaper Archive. Missing or empty
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Categories:
- 1913 births
- 1997 deaths
- Co-Optimist Rugby Club players
- Rugby union players from Edinburgh
- Scottish rugby union players
- Scotland international rugby union players
- Scotland Probables players
- Scotland Possibles players
- West of Scotland FC players
- Scottish rugby union biography stubs